weekend wines – week 31 2019
2017 Beaujolais Villages Blanc Clos de Rochebonne A deep and quite mineral nose with a little citrus skin with a floral suggestion. Weight of flavour, slightly fat but with direction and freshness. Bubbling with modest energy and fine flavour – perfect balance. A little concentrated citrus skin… Read More
2017 Fixin – blind…
18 wines, tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Clichés are usually that, but in 2017 there is more structure and more tannin in the Fixins than you will find in the Marsannays or Santenays – patience is rerquired. But there are many super wines too… 2017… Read More
2017 Marsannay – blind…
29 wines, tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Lots to recommend in Marsannay in 2017 – a big thumbs up, it seems, for Domaine Bruno Clair here… 2017 Huguenot, Marsannay Champs Perdrix A very different style of nose after the Santenays – rounder more depth, almost… Read More
marsannay-riesling?
No, they haven’t planted a new cepage in Marsannay! It’s great to taste different styles to keep your horizons open. Inspired by ami-du-vin Jean-François Guyard of vinifera-mundi.ch – and largely of wines from his own cellar – we got together on Wednesday evening with the… Read More
2014 Marsannay (plus more)
Tasted in Gevrey-Chambertin with Bernard Bouvier, Isabelle Collotte, Laurent Fournier, Sylvain Pataille and Jean-François Guyard. For me, and for a long time, Marsannay was more about producers and just a few lieu-dits (apparently there are 69 producers of Marsannay) and that’s because it’s a big and complicated… Read More
Marsannay: Village Profile
As the most northerly outpost of the Côte d’Or, Marsannay sits in the long shadow of Dijon. The hill of Marsannay forms a complex, clay-limestone (middle Jurassic) east-facing hillside that has many geological faults and is intersected by multiple Combes (side valleys). It is clearly consistent and continuous with… Read More
marsannay 2014…
Bernard Bouvier, Isabelle Collotte, Laurent Fournier and Sylvain Pataille… A great tasting of Marsannay 2014 yesterday with 4 talented producers – plus wines from many other (very interesting!) domaines too – over 40 wines. Timed just to fit into the March report – online before the end of… Read More