Profile: Domaine Armand Rousseau (Gevrey)
Armand RousseauIt has been said that if you want the safest route to a fine bottle of Chambertin, or Chambertin Clos de Bèze, then make sure that the label says… Domaine Armand Rousseau Since 1909 the Rousseau family have been based in one of the oldest buildings… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were really drunk and predominantly at home with food and friends between November 2004 and March 2005. I started 2005 with a few 1999 Vosne 1ers – usually very good, occasionally fabulous. Plenty of 2002’s that are very nice, but aren’t quite so… Read More
Guest Text: Red burgundy, Filtering, and Brettanomyces
Writing from San Francisco, Thomas Layton is a winemaker and lover of Burgundy. There are certain things he doesn’t like to smell in his glass… For years I was skeptical about red burgundies that had been filtered because I thought this meant they could be stripped of flavor. And I… Read More
1999 Potel Nicolas Volnay En Chevret
The first from this en-primeur case. Medium-plus cherry-red colour. A lovely ebullient, wide and complex nose, tons of interest, red fruit, violets and just a twist of caramel-oak. There’s an equal measure of complexity and interest in the mouth – not the intensity or fineness of texture of Nicolas’ Clos… Read in the Note Finder
1999 Potel Nicolas Volnay Clos des Chênes
Medium-plus colour with a deep core of cherry red. A lovely, though slightly understated nose eventually expands to give a creamy, almost bready and earthy base to the red fruit. Concentrated and wonderfully smooth, the palate has real executive tannins, succulently intense, creamy fruit of many layers and very good… Read in the Note Finder
Round-up of all wines tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between July 2004 and the end of October 2004. Corkwatch: 5 from 83 = 6.0% Regional Wines (8) Villages Wines (24) Premier Cru Wines (27) Grand Cru… Read More
Roundup of all wines tasted…
No slurping and spitting. These wines were predominantly drunk at home with food and friends between February and July 2004. For the first time I’ve tried to bring a semblance of order to these notes, so in each section you will find the producers in alphabetical order!… Read More
Red burgundy from 1998
I can’t help it, I like 1998’s, most anyway… Don’t run away with the idea that they’re perfect, because they’re not. Of the forty wines drunk, they generally showed balance, deep colour, gorgeous fruit that’s often shaded to black, a little spice, excellent concentration and very good acidity. There is… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were drunk at home with food and friends between July and November 2003. Corkwatch: 4 from 84 = 4.8% REGIONAL WINES 2000 Joseph Faiveley, Bourgogne Rouge Medium cherry red. The nose is of earthy cooked red cherries against a faintly smokey… Read More