Clos de Vougeot 2011 – blind tasted…
Tasted in London at the F+R offices, 14 October, 2014. My thanks to Joss Fowler for extending the invitation – I guess he knew it was my birthday! If you email him, I’m sure he will be happy to sell you all of these! Summarising… Read More
de l’eau…
I drove to the Côtes yesterday evening – it started dry in Switzerland, but it soon got very wet in France. Only the last few kms before Beaune allowed me the luxury of ‘intermittent’ windscreen-wipers! It seems that the department of the Côte d’Or got it (the rain!)… Read More
Burgundy Harvest 15 September 2014…
A perfect pic by Caroline l’Estimé of Domaine Jean-Noël Gagnard: Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Les Caillerets today. Typically, for my first day ‘on the job,’ today there are no grapes at the home domaine! They started with Volnay Lurets yesterday, harvested under the same benign 22°C and sunshine as… Read More
the contenders start their harvests…
Almost, but not quite, the last of the bottles drunk with Team NZ in Switzerland. Jasper has a few of the starters: Heavy rain this am chez moi but not on the vines I think. Lafon starts tomorrow, Ente on thursday…. The… Read More
Burgundy Reports
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3. The Evolution of Evocelles
At the end of February, I took a walk around the impressive work done by the Boisset group in Gevrey’s Les Evocelles; new walls and a big area of vines enclosed by it, right at the top of the hill below the trees. I know that some members… Read More
Updated: Domaine de l’Arlot (Nuits)
Much has changed at this domaine since I made my profile – time to renew and make new acquaintances. Summer time in 2011 was a time with many interesting stories about Domaine de l’Arlot. The winemaker Olivier Leriche had decided to leave for a new project outside Burgundy and… Read More
Nuits Saint Georges: Village Profile
Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More
a 2012 summary from clive…
JN Gagnard’s pic: Clos Bortier Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune (red) being harvested 1st October. I’m slightly bemused by the language, only because it sounds like there are real wines to commented on – virtually nothing has yet finished alcoholic fermentation, indeed much has not started… Read More