At the end of our tasting of 2024s last week, François served up this beauty. I thought it worthy of a mention. Ooh – what a growth of complex, developed aroma already – such a great nose for a ...
A hint of extra colour after the 2024s. Impressive aromatic scale, with a sweetness to its cushioned complexity. Direct. The initial linearity gives way as the flavours spread over the palate. The ...
Tasted in Chablis with Mélaine, 29 January 2025. Domaine Vincent Dauvissat 8 rue Emile Zola 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 46 11 58 Domaine Instagram More reports with Domaine Vincent Dauvissat Good news ...
Commune(s) of production 16 communes north and south of Beaune: Côte-d’Or: Auxey-Duresses, Blagny, Chassagne-Montrachet, Chorey-lès-Beaune, Ladoix-Serrigny ...
I’ll be the first to admit that I get far too easily excited by maps, but here’s a new one in the series by Laurent Gotti – perhaps with help from his new partner Sylvain Pitiot? – Laurent is now ...
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 ...
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Lucie Teillaud Mugneret, 25 October 2024. Domaine Georges Mugneret Gibourg 5, rue des Communes 21700 Vosne-Romanée Tel: +33 3 80 61 01 57 www.mugneret-gibourg.com ...
A hot year – you could say quite a dry one – but, as you can see, not dry finishing for the later pickers. The rain was quite strong in the Côte d’Or in the early morning of today. By 09h00 it had ...
It is useless to talk about value, or indeed price in general, for the wines of this domaine. But there are lunchtime places in Côte d’Or where these wines are ‘accessible’ for well below retail price ...
Beaujolais-Lantignié may have existed as an AOC since the 1930s, but for a long time its 110 hectares of vines have been more anonymously labelled as Beaujolais-Villages – and there are 6,475 hectares ...
Thursday the 21 st November 2024 will be Beaujolais Nouveaux day – so how about a few stats to get us going? The area under vine continues to decrease in Beaujolais – in 2023 it was just 12,067 ...
Tasted in Chassagne-Montrachet, 10 October 2024 with Bruno Colin. Domaine Bruno Colin 3 Impasse des Crêts 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 24 75 61 www.domaine-bruno-colin.com Domaine’s ...