the mid-week selection…
Tonight will be big wine night, so, to prepare, I did a modest warm-up this week, mopping up a few half bottles along the way… 2002 d’Angerville, Volnay 1er Clos des Ducs (375cl) There may be a bit of 2015 about this wine. 2002 was a big and… Read More
2015 Red Burgundy
The red harvest in 2015 was a little lower volume than the 5-year average of the vintages 2011-2015 – just 1% lower – but with so many low-yielding vintages included in those 5 years, this actually remains a very modest volume vintage: Many producers were surprised by the low… Read More
Patrice Rion – 2015
Tasted in Premeaux with Maxime Rion, 02 December, 2016. Domaine Michèle et Patrice Rion 1 Rue Maladière 21700, Premeaux Tel: +33 3 80 62 32 63 www.patricerion.com Maxime on 2016: “2016 was a deception, it looked a magnificent vintage, all in great shape, some… Read More
harvest day 2 – 23-sept-2016
No, not a tiny globe – actually a sun-burned grape – to be discarded! The Marquis (Guillaume) d’Angerville chose today to attack his Volany Champans, but we had unfinished business with our Morgon! Today, the second-half of our Morgon was going to stay in whole-clusters – of-course we… Read More
19 years of bio in the clos du château des ducs…
The Lafarge method of hand destemming: This morning Domaine Lafarge – that’s Michel (‘Lafarge Senior’ who made his first harvest in 1950) Frederic (whose first harvest was in 1979), Frederic’s wife Chantal Lafarge and their daughter Clothilde – harvested the grapes of their Volnay 1er Cru and monopole… Read More
Volnay 2014 – Nicolas Rossignol
Tasted in Beaune with Nicolas Rossignol, 28 February 2016. Having already tasted the 2014s of Nicolas in November, I’d been hoping to run a small vertical with Nicolas – Roncerets perhaps, as he likes it so much – but he was so ‘up’ on his new wines that he changed… Read More
Volnay: Village Profile
Volnay is about wines of beautiful perfume, but this relatively small appellation is also about people – Rossignols, Bouleys, Mures and Boillots – plus their various hybrids: “All the Rossignols are cousins, even Rossignol-Trapet in Gevrey is a nephew, and the grandfather of Henri Boillot was the brother of my… Read More
Roland Mure
Tasted with Julien Mure in Volnay, 10 February 2016. Domaine Roland Mure 15 Rue de Mont 21190 Volnay Tel: +33 3 80 21 63 63 There are some domaines in Volnay that you really wish would commercialise more of their own wine – Domaine Roland Mure would… Read More
week 05 2016 – the 2nd of february’s volnay visits
This week’s rogues’ gallery 😉 Domaine Pascal Mure Domaine Buffet Domaine Christophe Vaudoisey Domaine Regis Rossignol Doamine Jean-Marc Bouley Domaine Albert Boillot Domaine Montagny Domaine Alain Billard Domaine Perrin Domaine Didier Delagrange Domaine Rossignol-Cornu Domaine… Read More
