Daniel Bouland – 2019
Tasted in ‘Corcelette’ with Daniel Bouland, 02 February 2021. Domaine Daniel Bouland Corcelette 69910 Villié-Morgon Tel: +33 6 81 30 89 12 More reports for Domaine Daniel Bouland Daniel on 2019: “The first bottlings of 2019s were in May and then… Read More
AOC Saint Véran
Map Category Communal/Village appellation since 06/01/1971 Saint-Véran village profile. The village of Saint-Vérand bore the name of Saint-Véran before the French Revolution, when the appellation came into being this was the chosen name. The cave coopérative of Prissé accounts for almost one-third… Read More
Beaujolais’ boys and girls come to Beaune….
In the ‘square’ of Romain Escoffier’s Table du Square in Beaune (right), and with an occasional interloper, the brave young producers of Beaujolais set up stall in the heart of the Côte d’Or during the week of Burgundy’s Grands Jours de Bourgogne. This tasting was not in the official programme… Read More
Daniel Bouland – 2018
Tasted in ‘Corcelette’ with Daniel Bouland, 04 February 2020. Domaine Daniel Bouland Corcelette 69910 Villié-Morgon Tel: +33 6 81 30 89 12 More reports for Domaine Daniel Bouland Daniel on 2019: “It’s a good vintage. We were we lucky not to have… Read More
weekend 49 2019 – the wines
Three ‘bravo’ wines in one weekend – none of which were the expensive ones – we were blessed! 😉 2017 Albert Grivault, Meursault 1er Clos des Perrières A creamy nose – very nice, background citrus but not ‘special’ today. In the mouth this has beautiful shape, line… Read More
Mainly Beaujolais – new names & many magnums
Bien Boire en Beaujolais 2019 afforded me to the opportunity of finding a few (relatively) new names – here are 10 of them. Where possible I mainly tasted their 2017s. The domaines were not all from Beaujolais – truth be told, there’s some very nice Mâconnais domaines too! Plus I… Read More
Daniel Bouland – 2017
Tasted in ‘Corcelette’ with Daniel Bouland, 05 February 2019. Domaine Daniel Bouland Corcelette 69910 Villié-Morgon Tel: +33 6 81 30 89 12 Daniel on 2018: “It was a good harvest in both quantity and quality. For one time the weather was with us – growth was… Read More
Daniel Bouland – 2016
Tasted in ‘Corcelette’ with Daniel Bouland, 12 February 2018. Domaine Daniel Bouland Corcelette 69910 Villié-Morgon Tel: +33 6 81 30 89 12 Daniel on 2017: “2017 was a nice year for me with a better yield than in 2015 or 2016. The hail passed to the… Read More
A century of Moulin à Vent
Tasted in the Château Pizay, 12 October 2017. A press trip organised by the producers’ union of Moulin à Vent – a century of wines – that’s 100 wines, not 100 years! Despite my general reservations about ‘press trips’ this was perfectly executed with a small number… Read More