Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family. These wines were typically drunk at home, or at organised dinners between December 2006 and March 2007. Some wines drunk with their producers are included… Read More
Pommard: Village Profile
Pommard has an image problem. That’s a sad thing, though it seems that today’s growers have partly reaped what was sown by past generations; let’s be clear, little more than a generation ago a bottle labelled ‘Pommard’ was something of a lottery – not only from a quality perspective, but… Read More
pommard #15
A very ‘competent’ wine that needs a little more ‘soul’: 1996 Comte Armand, Pommard 1er Clos des Epenots Medium-plus colour. A wild and impressive nose at the start; oak, a little blood, interesting width, but slowly the oak becomes a little more dominant and the joy… Read More
Round-up of all wines tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between July 2004 and the end of October 2004. Corkwatch: 5 from 83 = 6.0% Regional Wines (8) Villages Wines (24) Premier Cru Wines (27) Grand Cru… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were drunk at home with food and friends between July and November 2003. Corkwatch: 4 from 84 = 4.8% REGIONAL WINES 2000 Joseph Faiveley, Bourgogne Rouge Medium cherry red. The nose is of earthy cooked red cherries against a faintly smokey… Read More
Profile: Domaine de la Vougeraie (Premeaux)
Update: The Vougeraie 2004s – March 2006 Update: The Vougeraie 2005s, 2004s and a vertical of Clos de la Prieuré – March 2007 Update: The Vougeraie 2008s & 2009s – March 2011 Domaine de la Vougeraie is a creation of the wealthiest wine related company… Read More
clos de vougeot/citeaux auction – and the results were…
Following on from this report, and tasting here. And so, on Saturday evening, came the end of the almost week-long auction to benefit the Abbey of Citeaux. The proceeds of the sale totalling totalling €797,750 / $870,000… The highest prices went to wines… Read More
2019 White Burgundy – Part 2
Part 1: 2019 Mâconnais – Sept 2020 Part 2: 2019 Côte d’Or – Oct 2020 Part 3: 2019 Chablis – Jan 2021 02 April 2019 – before the frost… What about the 2019 whites? Delicious, sensuous, tactile wines… 2019 is a year… Read More
The 1998 Burgundy Vintage – 20 years on…
I have been so looking forward to tasting these 1998s. I cut my teeth of the wines of 1993-1995 and the 1996s were the first en-primeur wines that I bought. I tasted some 1996 and 1997s in Burgundy but only started to regularly taste from cask from the 2000 vintage… Read More