Heitz-Lochardet – 2016
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet with Armand Heitz, 19 October 2017. Domaine Heitz-Lochardet 24 Rue Charles Paquelin 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 33 19 Armand on 2017: “2017 is a good vintage for the domaine as we had some new vines (and… Read More
Heitz-Lochardet – 2015
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet with Armand Heitz, 24 May 2017. Domaine Heitz-Lochardet 24 Rue Charles Paquelin 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 33 19 I asked Armand about the commercial status of the domaine, as it seems to be growing each year as vines return to… Read More
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