Hospices de Beaune 2021 vintage summary…
From Albert Bichot and the Hospices de Beaune – a harvest and vintage weather summary from this year: And some images from their harvest here. Like this:Like Loading…… Read More
mid-weekers, week 18 2021…
Last weekend there were no wines for me – but not because I was on the wagon – rather because I received my first covid-jab on Friday evening – Pfizer – so I let that do its thing before opening something a couple of days later… 2019 Yvon &… Read More
2018 Beaune – a large blind tasting
Tasted in Beaune, 02 March 2021 I find it’s too easy to let the worst of a particular vintage colour your impressions of a vintage as a whole – call it a lasting caricature of a vintage. Because I usually finish my tour of the new wines… Read More
2018 Corton
2018 Corton… Ah, Corton – I have the memory of many great bottles but rarely were those great bottles less than 25 years of age – but the times they are a changin’… The most recent vintages – say 2015 onwards – have elevated the ripeness… Read More
Domaine Joliet – 2019
Tasted in Fixin with Bénigne Joliet, 04 August 2020. Domaine Joliet Manoir de la Perrière 21220 Fixin Tel: +33 3 80 52 47 85 www.domainejoliet.fr More reports on Domaine Joliet. Although I have visited to taste… Read More
AOC Chablis Grand Cru
Category Grand Cru appellation since 13/01/1938 There is one single appellation – Chablis Grand Cru – the individual climats do not have individual/seperate AOCs. Commune(s) of production Yonne. 1 commune: Chablis Climats classed as grand cru There are seven official grand cru climats. An eigth ‘climat’ exists… Read More
2017 Meursault – blind
To be precise, my wish was to taste villages wines with lieu-dits on their label – such as Cromin or Tillets. There were producers who still sent anonymous Meursault cuvées, or old-vines cuvées with no other info, but as they had taken the time… In-line with the vintage… Read More
2017 Fixin – blind…
18 wines, tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Clichés are usually that, but in 2017 there is more structure and more tannin in the Fixins than you will find in the Marsannays or Santenays – patience is rerquired. But there are many super wines too… 2017… Read More
2017 Santenay – blind…
32 wines tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Santenay was another area that I thought produced above average wines for the vintage in 2017 when tasting at domaines at the end of last year. From this tasting, the wines were certainly a cut above those tasted from… Read More