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 ...
Commune(s) of production 16 communes north and south of Beaune: Côte-d’Or: Auxey-Duresses, Blagny, Chassagne-Montrachet, Chorey-lès-Beaune, Ladoix-Serrigny ...
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 ...
A deep golden colour – and from the first sniff, there are clearly no oxidation issues here. The nose is of a rich golden citrus with an undertow of cream and honey – plenty of maturity to these ...
The 2021-2022 winter was long and, compared to most of the recent years, relatively cold. Frosts were commonplace until the beginning of April so probably because of that, budburst – in the second ...
This is a placeholder for a visit with Charles, later in the year – and, of course, with news of Domaines Hudelot-Noellat and des Chézeaux: Charles started his boutique maison in 2012 – together with ...
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 ...
Clos de Bèze may be integrated under the label of Chambertin, but Chambertin is not allowed to take the label of Clos de Bèze. Clos de Bèze taking its name from the Cistercian monks of the abbey of ...
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 ...
Tasted with Pierre Vincent in Auxey-Duresses, 10 October 2024. Domaine Pierre Vincent Chemin sous la Velle 21190 Auxey-Duresses Domaine Pierre Vincent on Instagram Of course, most of you will remember ...
Tasted with Eric Germain in Meursault, 23 October 2024. Domaine Vincent Girardin “Les Champs Lins” BP 48 21190 Meursault Tel: +33 3 80 20 81 00 http://www ...
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 ...