Château de Rougeon – 2023
Tasted in Bissey-sous-Cruchaud (near Buxy) with Jospeph Bouchard, 24 November 2025 Château de Rougeon Rougeon 71390 Bissey-sous-Cruchaud Tel: +33 3 85 92 02 54 Instagram www.chateauderougeon.com More reports with Château de Rougeon Joseph on 2024: “2024 wasn’t a catastrophic vintage for us – the sheep saved the harvest !! In… Read More
Château de Rougeon – 2021
Tasted in Bissey-sous-Cruchaud (near Buxy) with Florence and Jospeph Bouchard. 19 April 2023 Château de Rougeon Rougeon 71390 Bissey-sous-Cruchaud Tel: +33 3 85 92 02 54 www.chateauderougeon.com More reports with Château de Rougeon Florence on 2022: “It… Read More
Profile: Château de Rougeon
Tasted in Bissey-sous-Cruchaud (near Buxy) with Florence and Jospeph Bouchard. 28 September 2019 Château de Rougeon Rougeon 71390 Bissey-sous-Cruchaud Tel: +33 3 85 92 02 54 www.chateauderougeon.com We have met Joseph Bouchard before in these pages, as he’s responsible for the… 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
BIVB Cave de Prestige 2022
Since 1971, and from Chablis to Mâcon, the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) has been selecting cuvées to illustrate the wines of Burgundy all around the world and to be used during the BIVB’s promotional and training activities. 2022 was the 51st awards ceremony for what has become know as… Read More
A Cru Fleurie Tasting
Tasted in Lyon 25 October 2021 The chance to meet a few domaines that I don’t know well, plus a couple of old favourites that crept in too! Listed in the order tasted: Chateau du Chatelard 307 rue de Chatelard 69220 Lancié Tel: +33 4… Read More
week 39: the last harvesting days, @louvre_lens & some wines
We’ve just returned from a (necessary) week in the UK – so my harvesting this year was cut a little short – that said – my home team in Beaune still managed to finish in September, just! The major part of the harvest was completed on Saturday (25th) and… Read More
weekend 14 2021, some wines…
Yes, mainly Chablis but with no regrets, just utter enjoyment from all this weekend: 2019 L&C Poitout, Petit Chablis A vertical nose – high and low tones but not so wide – there’s a floral freshness here. In the mouth the width that was missing on the… Read More
weekend wines, week 13 2021
2010 Famille Barbet, St.Amour Clos des Billards A reserve caveau label – usually the best of wines – let’s see… The colour is modest and showing some age but there’s no browning. All the time that it’s open, this is a timid nose, that’s not to… Read More