Profile: Domaine des Tilleuls, Philippe Livera (Gevrey)
The Domaine des Tilleuls is in the old heart of Gevrey-Chambertin, close to the Church, and set a little lower on the hill than the old Chateau. The building’s design is a little unusual – apparently once the stables for a Count – with two pointy turrets either side… Read More
closing in on the 2013 vintage…
I chatted with the ‘home domaine’ today to get a better feel for how things are running: It seems that, despite great weather in August and (so far) in September, the harvesting timeline has been extended a little further. Whites and the first Côte de Nuits reds will probably arrive… Read More
security guards?
Domaine Ponsot is the first high-profile producer to adopt eProvenance’s second-generation technology, which provides a detailed history of the life of a case of wine. The sensor monitors the temperature and humidity of fine wines as they travel from the wine producer to the customer, and… Read More
back again…
Doesn’t a month fly by? Though I suppose I’ll be paying for it for a little more than one month to come. NZ (only south island) was very special, and over the next days I will certainly subject you to some of my holiday snaps, but in the meantime, a… Read More
A Vintage Viewpoint…(updated)
As I noted in the ‘summer’ report, this overview would end up in it’s usual place in the autumn report- once published – so here we are. I’ve not felt the need to revisit the text of the 2012 and 2010 vintage, but have looked again at the text… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were mainly drunk with food, friends and family (a bunch from Pascal Marechand excepted), between May 2012 and September 2012… Regional Wines (6) Villages Wines (12) Premier Cru Wines (37) Grand Cru Wines (13) REGIONAL… Read More
harvest 2012: not quite over…
And no, I’m not talking about the Hautes Côtes! I understand that Laurent Ponsot’s team finally swung into action this week – he started on Monday (1st Oct.) and will be working through this week – and who knows, maybe a bit of next week too! Here’s a nice… Read More
harvest 2012: a basic summary
Last year it was relatively easy to make some broad-brush descriptions of the vintage. This year it really isn’t so easy. The growing season has delivered very little consistency in terms of yield – it’s very low but not consistently-so. Poor weather at flowering was the starting point,… Read More
a tale of two griottes: chézeaux & chézeaux…
Domaine des Chézeaux, by a big margin the largest owners of Griotte-Chambertin, have two metayeurs for their holdings (the two parcels were acquired at different times); Domaine René Leclerc and Domaine Ponsot. For a number of years there was confusion about who made the wine that was… Read More