Readers will have met Claudie before – either in these pages, or in my book – of-course she is Bernard Repolt’s ‘better half’ as winemaker at Remoissenet in Beaune. Quite a lot of you will also know that her mother, Laurence, was winemaker/enologist for almost 30 years at Joseph Drouhin… Read More

  Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More

Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly tasted with producers at the end of March 2012 – almost 200 wines – the bulk are culled from tastings put on for the Grands Jours de Bourgogne which happens every two years. I’ll start with a selection of wines from Beaune, followed by… Read More

No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between November 2011 and April 2012… Regional Wines (9) Villages Wines (23) Premier Cru Wines (37) Grand Cru Wines (9) REGIONAL WINES 2009 Domaine de Bellene, Bourgogne Maison… Read More

No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between September 2011 and October 2011 – actually that’s not many; just a few weeks and too much travelling… Regional Wines (1) Villages Wines (8) Premier Cru Wines (17)… Read More

It was my favourite Californian winemaker (currently based in Nuits…) that introduced me to this producer; I saw he had a few bottles in his cellar and commented that I hadn’t heard of them – quick as a flash Ray thrust a bottle in my hands and told me… Read More