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
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 the… 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 74 04 12 99 www.chateauduchatelard.com… 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
Beaujolais’ boys and girls come to Beaune….
In the ‘square’ of Romain Escoffier’s Table du Square in Beaune (right), and with an occasional interloper, the brave young producers of Beaujolais set up stall in the heart of the Côte d’Or during the week of Burgundy’s Grands Jours de Bourgogne. This tasting was not in the official programme… Read More
a bottle or two…
Just to show that I haven’t been ignoring my responsibilities these last couple of weeks – here’s the majority of bottles pulled from my own cellar in that time. I hold almost no notes in my head, but the basic impressions remain: The Armand Volnay was 2017, actually a… Read More
Mainly Beaujolais – new names & many magnums
Bien Boire en Beaujolais 2019 afforded me to the opportunity of finding a few (relatively) new names – here are 10 of them. Where possible I mainly tasted their 2017s. The domaines were not all from Beaujolais – truth be told, there’s some very nice Mâconnais domaines too! Plus I… Read More
