Leflaive – 2015
Tasted in Puligny-Montrachet with Eric Remy plus stageurs Jean-Baptiste and Sophie, 20 October, 2016. Domaine Leflaive Place Pasquier de la Fontaine 21190 Puligny-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 30 13 www.leflaive.fr The domaine is 24 hectares today. In 2010, 1.3 hectares were ceded to Olivier… Read More
more bourgogne, but from the ‘wrong’ leflaive..
The lunch menu offered up a tantalising wine option – Domaine Leflaive Bourgogne Rouge – I never heard of it, clearly it was worth investigating. Of-course when the bottle arrived the mistake was clear, it was actually from Olivier Leflaive. Anyway the bottle was here so why not give it… Read More
Gautheron-d’Anost – 2021
Tasted with Bastien in Meursault, 21 September 2022 Maison Gautheron d’Anost 31 Avenue Charles Jaffelin 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 6 50 41 98 26 This is a very new label, as 2020 was Bastien’s first vintage. I came to know Bastien when he was working for Olivier… Read More
2021 White Burgundy – Part 2
2021 Whites Part 1: Mâconnais, the modern classic 2021 Whites Part 2: Côte d’Or – the modern classic (this report) 2021 Whites Part 3: Chablis – Jan 2022 (so coming soon) Bâtard-Montrachet (Chassagne side) 09 September 2021 With the first two reports… Read More
2020 White Burgundy – Part 2
2020 Whites Part 1: Mâconnais – October 2021 2020 Whites Part 2: Côte d’Or – November 2021 (this report) 2020 Whites Part 3: Chablis – Jan 2022 (so coming soon) Meursault, 25 May 2020 – the flowering already done in the chardonnay…… Read More
Three B’s – Birthday, Bâtard & Bonnes-Mares
The three peaks to the left; the Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau. The big (closer) one on the right is the Niesen. I said that there would be some birthday wines – but first, today came a nice walk in the shadow of the Eiger, Monch… Read More
another nice wine this week – 2013 Bienvenues
This week we celebrated a birthday in a nice Swiss hotel, so for pre-dinner, I brought a bottle of my own. Bought direct from OL on release. This wine has spent quite a long time in a refrigerator as the apartment gets too hot in the Beaune summers… Read More
this week’s, pre-lockdown, 2019 inquisition…
A memento of some lovely visits and wines, pre-lockdown. My thanks for all the patience of these producers… (Report coming soon) Alphabetically (not pictorially): Bachelet-Monnot Chevrot Sylvain Dussort Albert Grivault Patrick Javillier Comtes Lafon Dominique Lafon Olivier Leflaive… Read More
Profile: Verget
Tasted in Sologny with Julien Desplans, 22 May 2019. Verget SAS Le Bourg 71960 Sologny Tel: +33 3 85 51 66 00 www.verget-sa.fr In 1976, the young couple, Maine and Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen, left their heimat of Flanders for Burgundy. They gave themselves… Read More