Profile: Domaine François Lamarche (Vosne-Romanée)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place François Lamarche was the 5th generation of Lamarche to farm the domaine’s vines in Vosne-Romanée. The domaine has roots to 1797 but on the maternal side the family go back as far as 1740 in the village. Now a 6th generation is… Read More
Vosne-Romanée: 2007’s in Bottle
This is something of a holy place for wine-lovers around the world. What do these thousands of tourists who travel along the Grands Crus route every year come to see? Romanée-Conti of course! Fewer than 2 hectares of vines produce barely 6,000 – 7,000 bottles of the most prestigious… Read More
random ruminations
Welcome First let me both thank and welcome Peter Sidebotham and Bruce Palling, each of whom contributed articles under the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2006 ‘banner’. I was unable to attend the London merchant’s tasting this year so they both stepped into the breech. My thanks to both, so… Read More
back from the côtes…
5:40pm 23rd March 2009: Finishing the last row in Romanée-Conti Two days in the Côtes and a whole book full of notes to try and put in some semblance of order for the Spring Burgundy Report which should be ‘out’ on Friday evening CET. After a tough 2 hours… 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 2008 and the end of November 2008. A mere 52 bottles are listed here, but don’t forget that another 113 from this Autumn Report lie here – it… Read More
cheval clark…
(Domaine) David Clark has gone the whole hog (or should that be mare?) and started ploughing his recently acquired plot of Vosne-Romanée with horse power (no F1 jokes please). I expect he will be burying cow horns full of …. (whatever) next! “In many ways it is the logical… Read More
2009 drc corton…
It sounds like an April fool, but from Bourgogne Aujourd’hui: Le domaine de la Romanée-Conti à Corton ! La plus célèbre des références bourguignonnes, le domaine de la Romanée-Conti exploitera à partir du millésime 2009 trois grands crus de l’appellation corton. Les vignes sont situées sur les… Read More
good-bye white burgundy & drc ‘control-freaks’…
Australian white burgundy that is… Now what about Domaine de la Romanée-Conti? You don’t see too much critique of the domaine as people are probably too worried that they might ‘lose’ their allocations of wine, but I think I will (eventually) raise a valid point here. I… Read More
2004 à la coccinelle
I think I was possibly the first to publicly raise and discuss the ‘vintage character’ of 2004 reds – anecdotally whites are also affected – Christophe Roumier is one who says this – but I’ve not experienced any obvious examples, so from here-on, red it is…… Read More