weekend wines – week 9 2020
I like to keep things varied – in terms of the label – plenty of great acidity in this selection… Read More
some weekend wines – week 9 2019
Sacy – Côteaux Bourguignone weekend wines, week 9 2019 Great corks… Vougeraie – Clos de Vougeot Roty – Grand Ordinaire A couple of ‘grand’ but… Read More
52x 2017 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 08 January 2019. I didn’t do this tasting for the 2016 vintage because most of Petit Chablis had been badly frosted. That said, so was a lot of 2017 too! I have anyway renewed my acquaintance with this AOP… Read More
big weekend, week 9 2017
All the wines were tasted blind and then the label shown before the next wine. The last white and the reds with dinner – a nice salad, blanquette de veaux, pears in burgundy wine, cheese… 2014 Céline et Frédéric Gueguen, Côteaux Bourguignone Sacy A super saline, faintly… Read More
Saint Bris – 2013 – Irancy
I cleverly thought this ready for publishing and so didn’t have the key to the identities to reveal which bottles are which at the publishing time. I need 48 more hours to return to my Beaune office – oops! Sorry! EDIT: Now Fixed! I have quickly established Irancy as… Read More
03. The grapes of Burgundy
Ex-BIVB, 2018 – it doesn’t include Beaujolais, but it’s a pretty image! The truth is out – Burgundy wine is not just red, it can be white or rosé, it can even be fizzy. Principally in ‘northern Burgundy’ it is about pinot noir and… Read More