The 2024 Burgundy vintage & its wines…
It started cold: Right, Chablis Les Pargues January 2024…The greatest wines of this tasting campaign… The Podium, roughly alphabetically… Bachelet-Monnot – 2024 Etienne Sauzet – 2024 Perrot-Minot – 2024 Samuel Billaud – 2024 Other Podium Contenders: Buisson-Charles – 2024 Boris Champy – 2024 de Montille – 2024 de Vogüé –… Read More
Michel Gros – 2023
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Pierre Gros, 19 March 2025. Domaine Michel Gros 7 Rue des Communes 21700 Vosne-Romanée Tel: +33 3 80 61 04 69 www.domaine-michel-gros.com Domaine Instagram More reports with Domaine Michel Gros Pierre on 2024: “We actually made less in 1979 when Vosne was heavily hailed. 1975 also… Read More
Bruno Clair – 2023
Tasted in Marsannay with Arthur Clair, 15 November 2024. Domaine Bruno Clair 5 Rue du Vieux Collège 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 28 95 www.bruno-clair.com Domaine Instagram More reports for Domaine Bruno Clair Arthur on 2024: “1981 was the ‘record’ low of the domaine – 2024 beat… Read More
Vougeraie – 2023
Tasted in Premeaux with Sylvie Poillot, 23 October 2024. Domaine de la Vougeraie Rue de l’Église Premeaux 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 48 25 www.domainedelavougeraie.com Producer Instagram More reports with Domaine de la Vougeraie Sylvie on 2023: “We started harvesting 30th August – with the chardonnay –… Read More
The return of the Mark – Vosne 2024 – part 5
Domaine Michel Gros Vendange 2024 – Day 4, Tuesday 24th Sept All the usual suspects at breakfast this day; older individuals, mostly longtime regulars, and including Philippe Durand – probably my favourite colleague along with Acho’s Italian owner. Philippe is an older guy family man from Belfort & I… Read More
Tortochot – 2022
Tasted in Gevrey with Chantal Tortochot, 15 July 2024. Domaine Tortochot 12 Rue de l’Église 21220 Gevrey-Chambertin Tel: +33 3 80 34 30 68 www.tortochot.com Chantal’s Instagram More reports with Domaine Tortochot Chantal on the 2022: “In 2022 we started harvesting on the 3rd September. Burgundy saw some frost at… Read More
The return of the Mark – Vosne 2024 – part 2
Domaine Michel Gros Vendange 2024 – Day 1, Saturday 21st Sept After travelling, arrival day and evening socials/dinner, this was ‘it’, day one for this vintage which, maybe more than usual, has had one wondering what might be in store given the much-trailed 2024 weather issues and effects to this… 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
dipping a toe into the côte d’or
As a warm-up for my three weeks in Beaujolais I, last Friday, dipped my toes into the (mainly) reds of the Côte d’Or before a Beaune weekend with a wonderful Saturday ‘lunch’ in the Hospices de Beaune – my first! Two domaines in Gevrey-Chambertin and one in Chambolle; Astrelles, Marc… Read More