2018 Beaune – a large blind tasting
Tasted in Beaune, 02 March 2021 I find it’s too easy to let the worst of a particular vintage colour your impressions of a vintage as a whole – call it a lasting caricature of a vintage. Because I usually finish my tour of the new wines… Read More
Cave Prestige 2018 – Les Blancs…
Apparently this is the 47th year that the BIVB have assembled their annual ‘cave prestige;’ the process consists of two tasting panels – a smaller one doing the first triage and larger group who provide the final thumbs up. For this, the 2018 version, they began… Read More
the jayer millions…
In full flow… My pre-sale post. Henri Jayer, 12 years after his death, remains an iconic winemaker. It seems a shame then that his life was reduced to mere money yesterday, though it was quite a final payoff for the family, a number… Read More
Côte Chalonnaise Blanc – 2016
Tasted at the BIVB Technical Centre in Beaune, 30 May 2018. All the wines were tasted blind, only matching the name to wine a couple of weeks later. An exercise that puts on show my full confidence in the 2016 vintage – the Côte Chalonnaise has fully delivered… Read More
Rully – 2013 blancs
I guess, when so spread-out through many, many separate visit reports, it may not have been easy for subscribers to string together my general enthusiasm for 2013 Rully blancs – but for me it became a theme of quite some consistency when tasting these vintage whites – much more… Read More
30 Burgundies in London
Tasted in London, 14 May, 2014; a tasting hosted by wine-merchant, Private Cellar. Producer: Domaine Bertrand Marchard de Gramont (Nuits St.Georges) 2010 Bourgogne En Chaillots Virtually in the Nuits St.Georges villages area – but not quite. The nose… Read More
GJB: Grand Crus Blind – 2011+2008
Grands Maisons, Grand Crus at the Clos de Vougeot, 20 March, 2014 All of these wines were tasted blind by me. Actually they are presented in the format “Wine 1. Chablis Les Clos” so you know the vineyard but not the producer – though, if there had been a Chablis… Read More
Burgundy Reports
A Burgundy Report EXTRA! subscription costs 85 Swiss Francs per year. Subscribe to Burgundy Report See what you’re missing, below… The 2019 Reports: March 2019All Styles:New names from Chablis2017 Beaujolais Blanc & Irancy, screw-caps & more…… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jean Chartron (Puligny)
Before visiting this domaine, I’d met Jean-Michel Chartron a number of times, usually as one of ‘Les Trois Barbouzes’ – an informal grouping of the domaines Chartron, Olivier and Seguin-Manuel – all at the time wearing beards (barbouzes!) of-course. Whilst it’s quite some time since you met two of… Read More