weekend wines – weekend 28 2018
2013 Olivier Leflaive, Bourgogne Oncle Vincent Pale lemon yellow. A narrow, fine nose of clean citrus. Plenty of fine zip to the ever-widening palate, little finishing waves of nice intensity flavour. When younger this needed plenty of air to show its best, but now it’s directly open and… Read More
weekend corkscrew work – week 12 2018
A weekend away, not control over the glassware. The whites showed great, less-so the reds… 2009 Alex Gambal, St.Aubin 1er Murgers des Dents de Chien Half golden. The nose starts with a toast, ends with a riper fruit. In the mouth this has youth and freshness – much… Read More
weekend corkscrew work – week 11 2018
2013 Olivier Leflaive, Puligny-Montrachet A faint, slightly reductive, toast on this nose – the depth hinting at a little grapefruit – which becomes more and more overt with aeration and as the toast fades. Fresh but with a melting width over the palate rather than direction. The flavour… Read More
2016 White Burgundy Report
Whilst recent headlines shout that 2017 could be the lowest volume wine harvest in France since 1945, that’s not the case in Burgundy – that’s 2016. The 2016 crop was devastated by frost – a gelée noire or black frost – this is where the vines are frozen overnight… Read More
2017 harvest – 30 august
Erwan Faiveley has been advertising his up-comng harvest on LinkedIn of all places – and as you can see (right) having a little fun on the way too! Yesterday, the 29th, saw Coche-Dury picking a trio of Meursaults: Perrières, Genevrières and Chevalières (Armand Heitz is bringing in his Perrières today)… Read More
some week 51 wines…
1993 Vaudoisey-Creusefond, Pommard 1er Epenots Hmm, the nose is not the most attractive thing – yet wait 30 minutes and aeration seems to remove a musty, oxidative element, and we start to sing along with an engaging sous-bois and sleek sweetness. In the mouth this retains some power… Read More
week 16s weekend wines…
Hmm – a nice selection I thought – but there were a couple of disappointments. 2013 Olivier Leflaive, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Champ Canet A hint of oak spice and a width of engaging aroma. Ooh! This is nice; layers of beautiful flavour and a fine line of enlivening acidity. Read More
just a few whites from this week…
Drunk slowly over the last 4 days, with a little Volnay here and there. The first two being part of a selection opened for tour-guests which also included a Puligny Champs Canet and a Bienvenues plus more Volnay 😉 2012 Olivier Leflaive, Bourgogne Oncle Vincent… Read More
Book: Recipes from the French Wine Harvest
This book has been waiting for more love than I had time for for, there were simply too many things to do, but now the timing seems perfectly appropriate as the home domaine is approaching mid-harvest. Rosi, just in case you hadn’t made the connection, is clearly the better half… Read More