Burgundy Reports
A Burgundy Report EXTRA! subscription costs 85 Swiss Francs per year. Subscribe to Burgundy Report See what you’re missing, below… The 2019 Reports: March 2019All Styles:New names from Chablis2017 Beaujolais Blanc & Irancy, screw-caps & more…… Read More
4. Wine & Cheese Matching – English-style (mainly!)
Cheese – just for a bit of fun! You know, people can be quite sniffy about matching their cheeses and wines; soft, hard, goat, sheep or cow, with or without stems, with or without crackers – it’s the real Burgundy minefield! Actually, I usually prefer a white wine with cheese;… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between September 2011 and October 2011 – actually that’s not many; just a few weeks and too much travelling… Regional Wines (1) Villages Wines (8) Premier Cru Wines (17)… Read More
l’enfant jesus and old man jacques…
Just an average Saturday night… 1959 Roger Moreau, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Clos St.Jacques Deeply coloured – still. The nose has a little oxidation – wait 20 minutes and it is only a memory; still hints of pure fruit from… Read More
oldtimers…
Drank over two nights with new friends from the 2011 vendanges. The first two bottles, and particularly the second, underline the loss to the world of the concept of aged white burgundy… 1978 Bouchard Père et Fils, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Les Pucelles Golden. No hint of oxidation on… Read More
random ruminations
There’s a turn-up – the Summer Issue and its still summer! As you will have noted from last summer’s Beaune-fest, the lack of a paying subscriber ‘model’ for Burgundy Report means that I’m as free as a bird to find out about, and write about, whatever comes into my head… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between April 2011 and August 2011. Regional Wines (3) Villages Wines (14) Premier Cru Wines (24) Grand Cru Wines (6) REGIONAL WINES 2009 David Clark, Bourgogne Passetoutgrains… Read More
a couple from the big boys…
I was in my local supermarket the other day and spotted these two similarly priced wines. Looking more closely they could quite possibly described as brand-leaders (at least for the domaines concerned) at this price-point – and that’s quite an important position when you consider that together, Bouchard P&F… Read More
Bottles of Beaune….
Research can be tough, but here is what I was ‘forced’ to sample to bring you this summer’s issue – nobody said it would be easy, but in alphabetical order, 55 premier cru wines, but a mere 22 1ers visited if you take Sur les Grèves separately from Grèves. Read More