the ultimate cellar?
I haven’t bought any wine through Sotheby’s for the best part of ten years – I certainly don’t have a catalogue subscription. Last week, despite that latter minor detail, a hardbacked catalogue arrived – it must have cost a fortune to send given that the auction is in Hong… Read More
The Wines of Champagne, Burgundy, Eastern & Southern France, Baxevanis (1987)
So a late-80s book from an author whose other books I’ve never seen. I assume that this once had a dust-jacket, but I never saw it. If you include the Beaujolais section with the ‘rest’ of the text on Burgundy then this accounts for about 90 pages of this… Read More
The Pearl of the Côte, Allen D. Meadows
2010, BurghoundBooks.com A note in the postbox; there’s a package to collect! And what a package; a Fedex ‘Large Box’, expertly packed with heavy duty bubble-wrap – there’s no sparing the CO2 here – unless it’s preserved in the bubbles! But the large, heavy book slides out in immaculate… Read More
Random ruminations…
My eighth Spring Report is quite a busy one – it’s amazing what you can pack in if seasonal colds desist! Firstly I have to thank Filip Verheyden (Belgian Wine Personality of the Year 2010 – apparently!) who is editor and publisher of Tong Magazine, for allowing me to… Read More
offer of the day – DRC 2007 & 09 en-primeur price-drop…
First there was Henri Boillot 2008, then Leflaive 2008 – though apparently the latter didn’t like seeing it in print here – now, fresh in it’s Louis Latour 2009. 20% sounds a lot, but it only brings prices roughly back down to (depending on who) vintage 2004… Read More
this week’s reading…
Just a few things that have passed over my desk in the last week: Tim Atkin has more free time. I really don’t know if it due to the growth of wine-writing on the internet, or whether it is the more simplistic (general) loss of revenue suffered by traditional… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between August 2009 and mid-December 2009. Regional Wines (8) Villages Wines (19) Premier Cru Wines (28) Grand Cru Wines (17) REGIONAL WINES 2007 Albert Bichot, Bourgogne Vieilles Vignes… Read More
Random ruminations…
The Market A trade source tells me that there are significant quantities of 2003, 2004 and 2006 that are still in the ‘pipeline’, and with hardly any 2007s sold, the coming 2008 en-primeur campaign could be very messy – that’s before you factor-in whether January will still be too… Read More
in the vines…
A quick update on the situation in the vines, courtesy of David Clark in (of-course) the Côte de Nuits: The vines are looking far too good at the moment. I’m doing the green harvest and haven’t found a single botrytised berry yet – plenty time for that to change,… Read More