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A new report is now online. Here. The April 2025 report has 34 producers and, mainly, their 2023s – though a few 2024s are starting to slip into the list … 2023 Beaujolais is largely over for me, but ...
Chablis Grand Cru – July 2023 For a vintage finishing in ‘3’ – i.e. 2023 – the vigneron (ne)s are very happy; quantity together with quality has been their mantra. Given what was to follow in 2024, ...
Tasted in Meursault with Camille & Guillaume, 21 November 2023. Domaine Camille & Guillaume Boillot 51 Impasse du Pres des Taupes ZA Les Camps Lins 21190 Meursault Domaine’s Instagram Domaines don’t ...
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 ...
Tasted in Puligny-Montrachet with Solène Panigai & Philippe Grillet, 19 March 2025. Olivier Leflaive Place du Monument 21190 Puligny-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 95 27 www.olivier-leflaive.com ...
2020 Sylvain Martel, Juliénas Bessay Vines that are all on high, on blue-stone. Certainly more rain here than in Fleurie in 2020 – though these old vines, worked organically, delivered 30 hl/ha fro… ...
Easter was in early April this year and it coincided with warm weather – not as warm, though, as the end of that Easter week where temperatures hovered only a little under 30°C – for the uninitiated, ...
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 Domaine Instagram More reports with Domai… ...
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 ...
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 ...
In another place, I gave my answer to the differences, or positioning, of these two AOPs. Here are my thoughts – but what do you think? You can see all of these spellings on labels, the most … ...
Tasted in Puligny-Montrachet with Jacques Carillon, 22 October 2024. Domaine Jacques Carillon 1 Impasse Drouhin 21190, Puligny-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 01 30 www.jacques-carillon.com Domaine ...