marko’s harvest diary 11-Sep-20 – day 9 – post-script!
Domaine Michel Noellat et Fils, Vosne-Romanee – (Post) Vendange Day 9, Friday 11th Sept 2020 The morning after the night before ! Whilst our working vendange was now over, as I’ve mentioned previously it has been my habit in recent years to look to stay on in Burgundy… Read More
another week’s inquisition…
My many thanks for the vigneron(ne)s that put up with my questions this week – once-more, many covetable wines for sure, you’ll have to subscribe to hear about the bad ones 😉 Purely alphabetically, domaines: Chanzy Jean-Philippe Fichet Fontaine-Gagnard Jean-Noel Gagnard André Goichot… Read More
catching up with the empty bottles…
Before I left for Piedmonte, I’d accumulated a lovely set of wines – I would/should say an exceptional group of wines. Where I can remember something, or indeed took a few crafty notes, a few words follow about them:… Read More
2017 White Burgundy Report
Lest we forget, 2017 was a year where French wine production was dominated by frost – by the skin of its teeth the Côte d’Or was mainly spared – there were some low-lying Bourgognes and parts of St.Aubin and St.Romain that froze, but quite unlike the widespread frost of 2016. Read More
weekend stuff, week 43 2018
Hot-footing back from Beaune on Friday, I thought to myself – Chambertin time! I’d pulled this bottle out for a friend’s tasting of Chambertins and Bèze, but after some date changes, I found myself unable to attend – a big shame – but the bottle was still looking at… Read More
DIAM and the eventual triumph of empiricism…
A discussion of why I believe DIAM to be my closure of choice for white burgundy. For a number of years I’ve recommended here in Burgundy Report that you either drink your white burgundy young – let’s say within 3-5 years of release – or that you buy… Read More
sober, sombre reflection…
To take stock, it’s always better to take a step back – emotions can be raw in the first minutes / hours after such an attack. My experience of the hail on Saturday was in the Place Carnot in Beaune. It started at 17h10 with heavy rain – then for… Read More
de la Tour – 2025
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 10 February 2026. Domaine de la Tour 3 Route de Montfort 89800 Lignorelles Tel: +33 3 86 47 55 68 www.ledomainedelatour.eu More reports with Domaine de La Tour Vincent on 2025: “It was better than 2024 !! But we still had a lot of… Read More
1999 Romanée St.Vivant
18x 1999 Romanée St.Vivant … Why? It’s a fair question: How on earth did I end up with 18 different examples of 1999 Romanée St.Vivant(?) Well, around the time of the release of DRC’s 1999s, I decided I’d like to drink a 1999 Romanée-Conti for my 50th birthday. At the… Read More