weekend corkscrew work – week 11 2018
2013 Olivier Leflaive, Puligny-Montrachet A faint, slightly reductive, toast on this nose – the depth hinting at a little grapefruit – which becomes more and more overt with aeration and as the toast fades. Fresh but with a melting width over the palate rather than direction. The flavour… Read More
And 2015? – nearly 50 wines now bottled
Nice to see how the bottled wines now look – plenty of truly great reds, though much harder to find great whites – seemingly more success by domaine than by particular wines in the whites! The whites: 2015 De Villaine, Bouzeron A modest nose, quite tight. Full, saline, slowly… Read More
Vougeraie – 2016
Tasted in Premeaux with Sylvie Poillot and François Lecaillon, 14 November, 2017. Domaine de la Vougeraie Rue de l’Église Premeaux 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 48 25 www.domainedelavougeraie.com The first tasting here since Pierre Vincent has moved-on to Domaine Leflaive. Read More
2016 White Burgundy Report
Whilst recent headlines shout that 2017 could be the lowest volume wine harvest in France since 1945, that’s not the case in Burgundy – that’s 2016. The 2016 crop was devastated by frost – a gelée noire or black frost – this is where the vines are frozen overnight… Read More
that’s what 5 hl/ha looks like
Pierre Vincent at Domaine Leflaive. Tasting 2016s this morning, there was this chance to see what a whole hectare of Montrachet delivered in 2016 – due of-course to the frost of 27 April. Six producers assembled all their grapes from 1 hectare of vines so there was enough… Read More
2017 Vintage – what we know in 2017 – and a few pointers…
This was my 14th consecutive harvest in Burgundy – triaging the grapes of multiple villages. I believe that this, together with questioning the winemakers, is the best balance of first-hand and third-party input required to comment on the vintage. If the frosted 2016 vintage was seemingly a case of quality… Read More
2017 harvest – 30 august
Erwan Faiveley has been advertising his up-comng harvest on LinkedIn of all places – and as you can see (right) having a little fun on the way too! Yesterday, the 29th, saw Coche-Dury picking a trio of Meursaults: Perrières, Genevrières and Chevalières (Armand Heitz is bringing in his Perrières today)… Read More
it’s (practically) here – burgundy’s 2017 harvest time – 3, 2, 1, go!
The weekend was stormy in many parts of France, some wine-growing areas had hail – Champagne for instance – fortunately none was reported in Burgundy, in fact many producers were happy to see a little rain. A few early pickers were already in the vines last week – Olivier… Read More
Profile: Jules Desjourneys
Tasted with Fabien Duperray in La Chapelle de Guinchay, 23 May 2017. Domaine Jules Desjourneys 75 rue Jean Thorin 71570 La Chapelle de Guinchay Tel: +33 3 85 33 85 88 Fabien, who is in his early-50s, is rather camera-shy, but it’s the only part of this… Read More