2005 des croix bourgogne pinot noir
I couldn’t resist it, yesterday I opened up one of my wines of the year from last year and was very happy with the result. Equally priced is another of my wines of the year last year and I just had to pull the cork! David Croix suggests aeration… Read More
Profile: Domaine des Croix (Beaune)
Domaine des Croix is work in progress. While flipping through the January issue of the magazine ‘Bourgogne Aujourd’hui’ the smiling face of the domaine’s regisseur, David Croix, greeted me. Apparently, he was the magazine’s great hope of the year in their annual awards (left). The self-effacing David told me… Read More
Jules Desjourneys – 2023 Blancs
Tasted with Fabien Duperray, in Romanèche-Thorins, 16 March 2026. Domaine Jules Desjourneys Clos des Bernoux 38 rue des Jacques 71570 Romanèche-Thorins Tel: +33 3 85 33 85 88 www.julesdesjourneys.fr Fabien Duperray Intagram More reports with Domaine Jules Desjourneys. Fabien: “2024, in both colours; it took me time to start to… Read More
Jules Desjourneys (whites) – 2022
Tasted with Fabien Duperray – who declined a second photo – in Romanèche-Thorins, 27 March 2025. Domaine Jules Desjourneys Clos des Bernoux 38 rue des Jacques 71570 Romanèche-Thorins Tel: +33 3 85 33 85 88 www.julesdesjourneys.fr Fabien Duperray Intagram More reports with Domaine Jules Desjourneys. Fabien: “I think it’s a… Read More
Champ de la Croix – 2023
Tasted in Denicé with Benoit Roche, 28 March 2025. Domaine du Champ de la Croix 795 route du Champ de la Croix, 69640 Denicé Tel: +33 6 86 42 14 00 Their Instagram www.domaineduchampdelacroix.fr Here’s an 18-hectare domaine whose Nouveau I liked very much a few months back. 18 hectares,… Read More
Jules Desjourneys – 2020
Tasted with Fabien Duperray in Romanèche-Thorins, 30 October 2023. Domaine Jules Desjourneys Clos des Bernoux 38 rue des Jacques 71570 Romanèche-Thorins Tel: +33 3 85 33 85 88 www.julesdesjourneys.fr Fabien Duperray Intagram… Read More
2009 cécile tremblay la croix blanche
2009 Cécile Tremblay, Bourgogne La Croix Blanche Still good colour – it’s aging so very slowly. Wide complex, slightly saline accents to the aroma. Round but fresh, open, still a large grain of tannin, adding richness as it warms in the glass. But this is fresh and long… Read More
David Croix – on the move…
There’s no doubt that David Croix has been very busy at two Beaune producers for the last years; working at, and then overseeing, Maison Camille Giroud since 2001 and his own Domaine des Croix (with investors), since 2005. But at the end of this year he will be making some… Read More
Caves des Vignerons de Buxy – 2013
Tasted in Buxy with Alain Pierre, 24th February 2015. Caves des Vignerons de Buxy Les Vignes de la Croix 71390 Buxy Tel: +33 3 85 92 03 03 www.vigneronsdebuxy.fr Here is a Coop with 270 members, stretching from Santenay in the north, to the border… Read More