offer of the day – Christophe Perrot-Minot 2016…
Relatively – the offers are coming in, thick and fast – that’s two this week! 🙂 Some more 2016s for you: VINS ROUGES Morey Saint-Denis La Rue de Vergy 2016 75cl 94.50 (*Swiss Francs) Gevrey-Chambertin 2016 75cl 94.50 Nuits St-Georges 1er ‘Les Murgers des Cras’ 2016 75cl… Read More
Profile: Domaine Perrot-Minot
Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Christophe Perrot-Minot, 29 June 2017. Domaine Perrot-Minot 54, Route des Grands Crus 21220 Morey-Saint-Denis Tel: +33 3 80 34 32 51 www.perrot-minot.com For years and years I’ve tasted the wines of this domaine, either in annual tastings in France… Read More
perrot-minot 2010 morey saint denis, la rue de vergy
There can’t be many producers that have done such an about-face in wine style in the last years. Although I found some of these wines marvellously impressive in 2005, it was 2006 that (I think) saw the last of the highly concentrated, and often hard to love, wines from… Read More
New Report. Part 2 of 3. The 2024 wines of the Côte d’Or…
Right: Pommard 1er Cru grapes: 23-August-2024 The November 2025 issue of Burgundy-Report: Part two of three. The 2024 wines of the Côte d’Or, tasted November 2025 The three greatest successes of this issue: Bachelet-Monnot – 2024 de Vogüé – 2024 Perrot-Minot – 2024… Read More
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
Emmanuel Sainson – 2023
Tasted in La Rochepot, 05 December 2024, with Emmanuel. Domaine Emmanuel Sainson 24 rue Saint Georges 21340 La Rochepot Tel: +33 7 82 51 06 24 Emmanuel’s Instagram Emmanuel is from the Sainson-Rossignol family in Volnay – he’s the cousin, for instance, of Nicolas Rossignol. His new vines in Beaujolais… Read More
23-Aug – Harvest 2022 – it’s warming up…
Whilst the majority of domaines are still testing grapes and not yet committing to their harvest dates, I’m virtually stalking a few domaines that have come to their 2022 harvest date decisions: Chateau Thivin – yesterday Marcel Lapierre – today Armand Heitz – today d’Angerville – today… Read More
Clos des Lambrays – 2020
Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Jacques Devauges, 18 November 2021. Société du Domaine des Lambrays 31, rue Basse 21220 Morey-Saint-Denis Tel: +33 3 80 51 84 33 www.lambrays.com More reports with Clos des Lambrays There are 1.6 hectares of… Read More
Well, it was too quiet today – 2021 part 2
Savigny Vergelesses today, looking towards Corton I got quite a mailbag when I made my first post of (semi) unsubstantiated rumours and the peddling of idle chit-chat, so thought I’d update you on some of those, and add a few more, to finish this… Read More