Blain-Gagnard – 2020
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet with Jean-Marc Blain-Gagnard, 19 October 2021. Domaine Blain-Gagnard 17 Route de Santenay 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 34 07 More reports with Domaine Blain-Gagnard Jean-Marc on 2021: “Well, the grand crus were really not too bad as… Read More
Blain-Gagnard – 2018
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet with Jean-Marc Blain-Gagnard, 24 October 2019. Domaine Blain-Gagnard 17 Route de Santenay 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 34 07 Jean-Marc on 2019: “All the years seem a little stressed; this year with frost 04 April – in Boudriotte and Morgeot we… Read More
Profile: Domaine Blain-Gagnard
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet with Jean-Marc Blain-Gagnard, 04 October 2018. Domaine Blain-Gagnard 17 Route de Santenay 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 34 07 Domaine Blain-Gagnard is tucked into a little corner of Chassagne-Montrachet, surrounded by other offshoots of the Gagnard family. The domaine was formed in… Read More
Some Côte d’Or & Mâconnais 2014 whites
Tasted in Beaune at the cuverie of Champy for the DIVA distributor tasting of 2014s – easily the best tasting, with the worst glasses! 23 and 24 March 2016, plus the ‘Tontons Trinqueurs’ tasting at the cuverie of Chantal Lescure in Nuits St.Georges, also on the 23rd of March. 73… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jean-Noël Gagnard (Chassagne-Montrachet)
The village of Chassagne-Montrachet is, amongst others, Gagnard country. A daughter of the owner of Domaine Delagrange-Bachelet married Jacques Gagnard to form Domaine Gagnard-Delagrange. The brother of Jacques Gagnard, Jean-Noël, also had his own domaine of Jean-Noël Gagnard. The two daughters from the Gagnard-Delagrange operation married a Blain and… Read More
Chassagne-Montrachet: Village Profile
It’s still Chassagne to most people, but to give it its fuller, grander title, we should say Chassagne-Montrachet. Head up the ‘Rue Principal’ and you see before you a village dominated by the bare rock of the quarry that towers behind it. Take the sign for the village centre and… Read More