2018 Chablis – What a surprise!
Our basic starting point for surprise is the harvest in 2018; growers suggest only days before they harvested, that they thought that there would be ‘not much juice.’ If we are comparing to 2017 where some domaines pressed hard and actually didn’t get much juice, that might be fair –… Read More
frost – a close call in the côtes
April 2016… To be honest, I hardly remember frost in Burgundy – I began tasting here in 1997 (the 1996s), and I’ve rarely seen much – but there was a sense of deja-vu to this week’s weather forecast. Typically, back home in Switzerland, I brought out my non-hardy… Read More
2015 – Chablis
Straight to the point: 2015 is a delicious vintage in Chablis. Given the warm ‘sunshine’ year, it is no surprise that the wines have an aromatic and flavour palette that is a little larger and riper than you might describe as ‘classic’ – but no more than a handful… Read More
58 x 2005’s
No pretence about making life easy for you – these wines are listed in exactly the order tasted – but there are plenty of big names! They were not drunk at home, nor were many swallowed, but they were all tasted in a 2 hour period together with most of… Read More