de la Tour – 2023
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 23 January 2025. 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 2024: “It’s not hard, it’s very simple – we’ve never seen so low, certainly… Read More
de la Tour – 2022
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 18 January 2024. 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 2023: “I… Read More
de la Tour – 2021
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 27 January 2023. 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 2022: “I… Read More
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1 – The Côte de Beaune
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: (Here) The Côte de Beaune – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: The Côte de Nuits – December 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: Beaujolais – February 2022 Clos des Cortons – Faiveley – 6 weeks after… Read More
Tuesday September 6 – my Burgundy harvest day number 7
Mixed emotions on the Tuesday morning; our first bins of Corton-Charlemagne arrived about 08h00 and the grapes were resplendent – not too much to triage here! It was only about an hour later that we heard of the death, in the night, of Louis-Fabrice Latour – almost a youngster… Read More
this week’s wines, including ‘Who is the new Domaine René Engel?’
Dinner with friends in Pommard and some lovely, eclectic, wines. The first bottle was a lovely 2011 Comtes Champagne – with some lovely menthol aromatic complexity. Then came the: 2012 Fontaine-Gagnard, Le Montrachet Deeper colour and the first nose was more monolithic – some sulfur-reduction hardening things… Read More
de la Tour – 2020
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 04 January 2022. Domaine de la Tour 3 Route de Montfort 89800 Lignorelles Tel: +33 3 86 47 55 68 www.ledomainedelatour.eu There’s no ‘tower’ here at the top of the village of Lignorelles but this was a… Read More
Auxey-Duresses: Village Profile
When it comes to white wine recommendations and the common old question of ‘what’s a better value alternative to Puligny or Meursault?‘ my toes curl and my teeth grind when people, with an assured air of superior knowledge, authoritatively boom – ‘Oh you should look at St.Aubin!‘ Save for a… Read More
Clos de Vigne au Saint – 118% Corton!
Jasper Morris’s book ‘Inside Burgundy’ describes Corton Clos de la Vigne au Saint as covering 2.46 hectares, yet, if you add up the surface areas of today’s three owners; des Croix, Louis Latour and Méo-Camuzet, you will come up with a larger number – 18% larger! The first reference… Read More