10 vintages of screw-caps – with Clotilde Davenne
Tasted in Préhy with Clotilde Davenne and team, 20 March, 2019. Domaine Clotilde Davenne 3, rue de Chantemerle 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 46 05 www.clotildedavenne.fr My reportage, last year, on the use of DIAM… Read More
weekend wines – week 16 2019
A super-successful, eclectic, bunch of wines this weekend… 2017 Sylvain Pataille, Marsannay Blanc Chardonnay Rose I’d already tasted one with him last week, but as I was leaving his… Read More
some weekend wines – week 15 2019
2017 Alice & Olivier De Moor, Le Vendangeur Masque, Le Caravan A mélange of different cepages from the south to north: clairette (Rhone), chardonnay… Read More
frostwatch…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Domaine Hubert Lamy (@domainelamy) on Apr 4, 2019 at 10:37pm PDT Earlier in the week I showed you images of the candles and… Read More
some weekend wines – week 13 2019
4 wines – 4 different seals! 2014 Dampt Frères, Bourgogne Tonnerre Le Clos du Chateau The cork proudly proclaims (translated) ‘Natural cork, matured 18 months, washed without peroxides or solvents’ – okay we can quibble about what constitutes a… Read More
2017 Beaujolais Blanc
And the winners were… All blind-tasted in Villefranche-sur-Saône, 22 March 2019. The Summary: 61 wines tasted blind, though tasted in the order 1) Beaujolais Blanc and then 2) Beaujolais Villages Blanc – it was by pure chance that my picks were equally split between each… Read More
A Bourgogne Côte d’Or?
I’ve discussed it before, but this is a new label that you might come across for the first time with the 2017 vintage. People have been proposing this label for almost 20 years but now it’s done – and it’s for both the reds and… Read More
Claire & Fabien Chasselay – 2017
Tasted in Châtillon d’Azergues with Fabien Chasselay, 15 February 2019. Claire et Fabien Chasselay 123/127 Chemin de la Roche 69380 Châtillon d’Azergues Tel: +33 4 78 47 93 73 www.domaine-chasselay.com Fabien on 2018: “A year that was fine in the… Read More
Girin – 2017
Tasted in Saint-Vérand with Thibault Girin, 15 February 2019. Domaine Girin Aucherand 69620 Saint-Vérand Tel: +33 6 83 53 46 64 www.domainegirin.fr Thibault on 2018: “Happy in all directions! Quality, quantity! We started the year dry then it was very wet,… Read More