2021 Beaujolais: You can have it all – there’s great, good and there’s ugly too…
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: 35 Côte de Beaune domaines – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: 41 Côte de Nuits domaines – December 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: 85 Beaujolais domaines – February 2023 Above the… Read More
a few festive wines – so far…
Just from memory: 2019 Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett The name longer than the note! Low alcohol, sweet but so moreish – delicious wine… 2018 Laurent Martray, Brouilly Corentin This is why I love this producer – so involving, beautiful fruit and suddenly the… Read More
2019 Beaujolais: ‘it doesn’t show the sun as much as we were expecting’
2019 Red Burgundy Part 1: Côte de Beaune – November 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 2: Côte de Nuits – December 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 3: (Here) Beaujolais – February 2021 2019 delivered a more classic timing for the… Read More
Beaujolais: the Pasteur Institute is selling the Château des Ravatys
I see this reported in the French press today: The Pasteur Institute, owner of the Château des Ravatys, has decided to sell the estate to help fund their research. Apparently, this follows long reflection and there is no link between this decision and the backdrop of… Read More
Clos de la Roilette – 2018
Tasted with Alain Coudert in Fleurie, 06 February 2020. Domaine Clos de la Roilette Clos de la Roilette 69820 Fleurie Tel: +33 4 74 69 84 37 www.clos-de-la-roilette.com More reports for Domaine Clos de la Roilette Alain on… Read More
2018 Beaujolais: ‘This time the weather was with us!‘
2018 was a year with an early harvest and not much, but regular, rain after the 15th June – so the vines didn’t suffer from drought. It was ‘mainly’ too dry for the maladies in the summer, though. 2018 is the first vintage for a number of… 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
weekday wines, week 51 2018…
A holiday week in the south of France – though plenty of typing was interwoven. Our first bottle was the 2016 Château Thivin, Côte de Brouilly Les Griottes de Brulhié – and like most Thivin, for my palate, it was delicious. Deeply coloured and fruited – just a great… Read More
Brouilly & Côte de Brouilly – 2017 (2016, 2015…)
Tasted in the offices of InterBeaujolais in Villefranche, 19 and 20 July 2018. What was already apparent last November when tasting 142 2017 Nouveaus, was confirmed by this early tasting of 2017s from Brouilly and Côte de Brouilly: Clearly 2017 is a ripe and concentrated vintage in… Read More