2005 dubreuil-fontaine volnay
2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine, Volnay Dark colour. Concentrated red berry – so much so it’s like a sauce reduction. Clinical, clean lines – very linear but silken. Really good intensity and even an impression of flavour! Despite the note it… Read More
2005 dubreuil-fontaine volnay
2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine, Volnay This is a very good value wine, not only is it well priced for a villages wine, as we now know it also contains a significant amount of 1er cru grapes from Carelle Sous… Read More
Profile: Domaine Dubreuil-Fontaine (Pernand)
Sat about halfway up the hillside village of Pernand-Vergelesses is the domaine of Dubreil-Fontaine. Christine is the 5th generation of the family since 1879, to run the domaine from Pernand. At 20 hectares and producing 20 different cuvées that cover all the hierarchy – it’s no small operation. Other than… Read More
2005 dubreuil-fontaine, corton-perrières
Bought, it now seems, for a ‘song’ at en-primeur time at a mere 39 Swiss francs per… 2005 Dubreuil-Fontaine, Corton-Perrières Limpid medium, medium-plus cherry red. The nose starts tight and unyielding. It slowly releases mocha/espresso high-notes and even over 2 hours remains stable without… Read More
Lebreuil – 2023
Tasted with Jean-Baptiste Lebreuil in Savigny-lès-Beaune, 22 October 2024. Domaine Lebreuil – Pierre et Jean-Baptiste 17, rue Chanson Maldant 21200 Savigny-lès-Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 21 52 95 www.domaine-lebreuil.com Domaine Instagram Jean-Baptiste’s grandfather started working with the vines in the 1960s, initially working with others but it was a time… Read More
Profile: Dupeuble Père et Fils
Tasted in Le Breuil with Ghislaine Dupeuble, pictured with brother, Stéphane Dupeuble, 20 February 2020. Beaujolais Dupeuble Père et Fils Château des Pertonnières 69620 Le Breuil Tel : +33 4 74 71 68 40 www.beaujolaisdupeuble.fr In the whole of France, there are… Read More
a productive weekend’s bottles…
A nice set of wines this weekend, in various stages of ‘open-ness…’ 2011 Au Pied de Mont Chauve, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Maltroie Large-scaled in both aromatic and in the mouth – but silkily so. Nice weight of both aroma and flavour with a good freshness too. Not super-energetic but… Read More
Roundup of Wines Tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family between August and November 2007. There main exception in these pages are about 60 2005’s which were tasted at a large gathering in Zürich in November. Only… Read More
icymi…
The weather of last week – i.e. the -12°C – was seemingly insufficient the freeze the opened bottles of wine that stood outside my kitchen window. Still, that was one chilly drop of wine… Talking of the weather – my long-weekend visit to the Côtes was called off –… Read More