2023 Chablis – 59 wines blind tasted …
2023 Chablis – nearly 60 wines blind-tasted, 19 May 2025… Not every year, but often, I make a blind tasting in Chablis. It allows me to see what’s going on outside of the domaines that I already visit; I don’t think that anyone else tastes as widely as I here… Read More
Raoul Gautherin & Fils – 2023
Tasted with Adrien Gautherin in Chablis, 17 April 2025. Domaine Raoul Gautherin et Fils 3 Avenue Aristide Briand 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 42 11 86 www.chablis-gautherin.com Domaine Instagram More reports with domaine Raoul Gautherin Adrien on 2024: “Certainly bad vintages in 13, 16 and 21 but in 2024… Read More
2024 Edition: Grands Maisons, Grands Crus – Vintage 2020
Tasted in the cellar of Château Philippe le Hardi – the newly named Château de Santenay, 21 March 2024. Well, where else will you find 36 different grand crus to taste in one sitting? I’d always considered this to be a ‘don’t miss’ tasting. Despite that, I chose not to… Read More
57x 2022 Petit Chablis – Blind Tasted
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 29 January 2024. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the last years,… Read More
Côte de Fasse – 2021
Tasted in Beines with Paul Gagnepain, 12 January 2023. Domaine de la Côte de Fasse (G.A.E.C. Gagnepain) 2 Voie du Gain 89800 Beines Tel: +33 3 86 42 46 85 www.chablis-cotedefasse.fr I met Paul on a large plot of land which neighbours… Read More
2021 White Burgundy Part 3 – Chablis
Part 1: 2021 Mainly Mâconnais – Sept 2022 Part 2: 2021 Central Burgundy – Oct 2022 Part 3: 2021 Chablis – Jan 2023 (Here) Right – unsurprisingly, this is how the 2021 vintage in Chablis will be remembered. Image 08h30… Read More
66x 2019 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 25 January 2021. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the… Read More
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I previously introduced the BAKUS here. Two years later, maybe you might start seeing them in the ‘wild.’ In this case, in the vineyards of Louis Moreau in Chablis: Like this:Like Loading... Read More
56x 2018 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 21 January 2020. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, of new producers whose wines I haven’t already explored. A number who made wines I rated highly in the 2017 vintage were profiled for… Read More