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
1997 White Burgundy
First of all an apology – a mere 20 whites tasted – I did have another 12 lined up, including some big name premier and grand crus from Domaine Leflaive, however, the mixed dozen were from the same merchant where a couple of the 1997 reds I tested in the… Read More
The January Burgundy Session
Absolutely good food, good wine, good company. Warming up with two red wines with friends on the Thursday evening (Clos de la Roche and Grands Echézeaux), and considerably more on the Friday evening when 13 of us from the wine-pages forum got together in London. As you can see… Read More
The Early 2025 Burgundy Vintage Report
Comtes Lafon – finishing their white harvest before the rain. 22 August 2025… It’s much too early to discuss individual wines – many of which have not finished all of their fermentations – but we can make many comparisons to how the vintage played out versus 2024: In Summary If… Read More
2024 today – subtitled, the cold and the rain !!
Monday 22 April 2024 – Pinot flowers forming in villages Chassagne… I think that now is a good time to turn our attention to the 2024 vintage. Vintages ending in a 4 have not had the greatest run of publicity; 2014 is an unheralded vintage but was… Read More
a nice little earner…
Well, it’s been quite some time that a big pile of money has been looking for a new home! Last week at the press conference of the Hospices de Beaune, a fellow ‘writer’ asked me if I’d heard about a billion euro transaction to buy Louis Jadot… Read More
Tuesday September 6 – my Burgundy harvest day number 7
Mixed emotions on the Tuesday morning; our first bins of Corton-Charlemagne arrived about 08h00 and the grapes were resplendent – not too much to triage here! It was only about an hour later that we heard of the death, in the night, of Louis-Fabrice Latour – almost a youngster… Read More
Auxey-Duresses: Village Profile
When it comes to white wine recommendations and the common old question of ‘what’s a better value alternative to Puligny or Meursault?‘ my toes curl and my teeth grind when people, with an assured air of superior knowledge, authoritatively boom – ‘Oh you should look at St.Aubin!‘ Save for a… Read More
Côte de Nuits – mainly Gevrey-Chambertin
Domaine Guyard 10 rue du Puits de Tet 21160 Marsannay la Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 14 46 www.alainguyard.com Alain has 8.5 hectares and is based in Marsannay. 2015 Marsannay A bright and wide red-fruited nose. Energy, nice fruit –… Read More