New Wines from Nuits Producers
A tasting put on by the producers of Nuits St.Georges, 28.03.2010. A surprising number of the 2007s could be well described as ‘luncheon Nuits’, though I do find myself using the word ‘pretty’ quite often. These luncheon Nuits will offer you some very elegant drinking, it will just depend… Read More
Pommard New & Older (…1999)
From the Grands Jours in Burgundy at the end of March, one of my favourite tastings. In the grand rooms of the Château du Pommard the local growers presented their young wines – as always there wasn’t time for me to get around the whole thing, but I think there’s… Read More
Camille Giroud: 2009 Update (2007s)
A small selection of wines from 2007, tasted in September 2009. I thought that I noticed some slight development of style but wasn’t sure whether it was because of the vintage or because I was tasting ‘later’ from bottle rather than barrel – the usual oak tannin texture was… Read More
2007 Giroud Camille Bourgogne Cuvée L
One year David Croix had an order for Bourgogne, only to realise he didn’t have enough wine to fill the order. As an option for the New York merchant he suggested that he could assemble the racked lees from all his reds, give it time to settle as best as… Read in the Note Finder
Profile: Domaine François Lamarche (Vosne-Romanée)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place François Lamarche was the 5th generation of Lamarche to farm the domaine’s vines in Vosne-Romanée. The domaine has roots to 1797 but on the maternal side the family go back as far as 1740 in the village. Now a 6th generation is… Read More
Vosne-Romanée: 2007’s in Bottle
This is something of a holy place for wine-lovers around the world. What do these thousands of tourists who travel along the Grands Crus route every year come to see? Romanée-Conti of course! Fewer than 2 hectares of vines produce barely 6,000 – 7,000 bottles of the most prestigious… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between August 2008 and the end of November 2008. A mere 52 bottles are listed here, but don’t forget that another 113 from this Autumn Report lie here – it… Read More
offer of the day…
DOMAINE THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR 2007 GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN Les Croix des Champs 75cl 45.00 Swiss Francs NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES La Charmotte 75cl 47.50 VOSNE-ROMANEE Aux Réas 75cl 66.00 NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES Les Saint-Georges 75cl 85.00 CLOS DE VOUGEOT 75cl 109.00 RICHEBOURG 75cl 259.00 Observations? Well the villages wines are averagely priced except… Read More
2004 à la coccinelle
I think I was possibly the first to publicly raise and discuss the ‘vintage character’ of 2004 reds – anecdotally whites are also affected – Christophe Roumier is one who says this – but I’ve not experienced any obvious examples, so from here-on, red it is…… Read More