Pierre Naigeon – 2015
Tasted with Pierre Naigeon in St.Philibert, 14 November 2016. Domaine Pierre Naigeon 1, route de Saint Philibert 21220 Gevrey Chambertin Tel: +33 3 80 33 46 03 www.pierrenaigeon.com When I visited, Pierre was just racking many of his 2015s into tank – to free… Read More
Fourrier – 2015
Tasted in Gevrey with Jean-Marie Fourrier, 14 November 2016. Domaine Fourrier 7 Route de Dijon 21220 Gevrey-Chambertin Tel: +33 3 80 34 33 99 Jean-Marie of the 2016s: “Harvest was much later – 18 days later, the last 16s only went onto barrel last week.” Jean-Marie… Read More
The spectacular rise & fall of Maison Ilan
Image cite: http://maisonilan.com/ The research for this article began in mid-August 2016, following this post on the UK-based Wine-Pages internet forum. I embarked on this research from the perspective of ‘can there be smoke without fire?.’ The article itself was over 90% complete in… Read More
Odoul Coquard – 2014 (and 2015!)
Tasted in Morey with Sébastien Odoul, 03 June 2016. Domaine Odoul Coquard 64 Route des Grands Crus 21220 Morey-St-Denis Tel: +33 3 80 51 80 62 www.domaineodoulcoquard.com Sébastien was on great form as we joined with some Australian visitors for this tasting. The wines… The… Read More
Volnay Santenots – du Pavillon (Bichot)
Tasted in Beaune with Christophe Chauvel, 02 March 2016. Red soil here next to Plures, here Pierre Morey has Meursault from Durots, but apparently he prefers it in red saying that the white from here is a little heavy. Here you have the feeling you are in Meursault, not Volnay. Read More
Boisset Jean-Claude – 2014
Tasted in Nuits St.Georges with Grégory Patriat and Laure Guilloteau, 07 December 2015. Jean-Claude Boisset 5 Quai Dumorey 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 61 61 www.boisset.fr Grégory on 2014: “2014 was interesting because it was challenging. I didn’t want to harvest… Read More
Louis Latour – 2014
Tasted in Beaune with Bruno Pepin and Boris Champy, 02 December 2015. Maison Louis Latour 18 Rue des Tonneliers 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 24 81 00 www.louislatour.com The 2015 vintage… “The whole estate was picked in 7 days. Very easy, not so… Read More
Louis Max – 2014
Tasted in Nuits with Jean Francois Joliette, Éric de la Broise and David Duband, 01 December 2015. Maison Louis Max 6 Rue de Chaux 21700 Nuits-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 43 01 www.louismax.com The former CEO of Louis Max, Philippe Bardet moved to… Read More
Vougeraie – 2014
Tasted in Premeaux with Pierre Vincent, 16 November, 2015. Domaine de la Vougeraie Rue de l’Église Premeaux 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 48 25 www.domainedelavougeraie.com With the resources of JC Boisset this domaine continues to grow. Today there are… Read More