Saint Amour: Village Profile
Saint Amour Basics: AOC – Since February 1946 AOC Area – 320 hectares Allowed Yields – 58 Hl/ha Allowed Colours – Red only (White bottled as Beaujolais Blanc) Allowed Grapes – Gamay Noir with up to a maximum of 15% ‘others’ including: Aligoté,… Read More
it’s (practically) here – burgundy’s 2017 harvest time – 3, 2, 1, go!
The weekend was stormy in many parts of France, some wine-growing areas had hail – Champagne for instance – fortunately none was reported in Burgundy, in fact many producers were happy to see a little rain. A few early pickers were already in the vines last week – Olivier… Read More
l’Arlot – 2015
Tasted in Premeaux with Géraldine Godot, 07 June, 2017. Domaine de L’Arlot Premeaux 21700 Nuits-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 61 01 92 www.arlot.com The domaine has been here for 2 centuries, belonging to two families – but wasn’t called Arlot until the time of… Read More
Albert Morot – 2015 revisted
Tasted in Beaune with Geoffroy Choppin de Janvry, 6 June 2017. Domaine Albert Morot 20 Avenue Charles Jaffelin 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 22 35 39 I visited Geoffroy back in November, but his 2015s were so backward (still with malo and lots of gas)… Read More
Beaune 1er Clos de l’Ecu, Monopole – A Vineyard Profile
Foreground is the Clos de l’Ecu, below on the left is Cent Vignes, on the right is Bressandes… The monopoly of the Clos de l’Ecu was bought by Domaine Faiveley in 2003 from the heirs to what was left of Maison Jaboulet-Vercherre – the vines previously having been… Read More
Jean Loron – 2015
Tasted in Pontanevaux with Philippe Bardet and Jean Pierre Rodet, 23 May 2017. Maison Jean Loron 1846 RN 6 71570 Pontanevaux Tel: +33 3 85 36 81 20 www.loron.fr www.chateau-bellevue.fr Outside of occasional new domaine profiles, my annual look at the wines of… Read More
the weather so far…
Les Hervelets By the skin of its teeth, the Côte d’Or has largely escaped the frost travails of much of France (& Switzerland). If relatively few had set light to their straw last Friday morning, it was easy to spot the difference as soon as you left the… Read More
Clos de la Chapelle – 2015
Tasted in Beaune with Mark O’Connell and Pierre Meurgey, 28 March 2017. Domaine Clos de la Chapelle 3 rue de Grenier à Sel 21200 Beaune Tel: +1 816 223 0257 www.closchapelle.com Mark on 2016: “I don’t even know where to begin. 27 April… Read More
A visit to de Vogüé
Visited 23 March, 2017. Although the word was already on the street for a while, March saw the official confirmation from de Vogüé that the Musigny Blanc label would be resurrected – 2015 the first vintage since 1993. I thought it would be a good time… Read More