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It's interesting to reflect more generally in light of Andrew's comments, however, that one seldom talked about consequence of making wines in a more and more gentle way, with more whole cluster, shorter macerations, less pigeage, gentler pressing, less new oak, and shorter élevage, is that wines i...

Right on cue, The Bottle List has a nice offer up of '18 Duroche. Just picked up a mix of Gevrey Champs and Les Jeunes Rois, as well as a couple of the Vosne. Passed on the 1ers, although I'm sure they're great. You should check on the Vosne - AFAIK, they only have vines in Gevrey. It's definitely ...

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September 3rd, 2020, 10:27 am
Right on cue, The Bottle List has a nice offer up of '18 Duroche. Just picked up a mix of Gevrey Champs and Les Jeunes Rois, as well as a couple of the Vosne. Passed on the 1ers, although I'm sure they're great.

You should check on the Vosne - AFAIK, they only have vines in Gevrey.

2019 Roilette - Fleurie - normal and tardive 2019 Bouland Morgon Corcelette Curious to try and compare the 2018 versions, which I liked a lot - to quote the Wine Advocate on the Roilette Fleurie: " If the gourmand generosity and wealth of fruit of 2018 will win the domaine new friends, then the fra...

2019 Roilette - Fleurie - normal and tardive 2019 Bouland Morgon Corcelette Curious to try and compare the 2018 versions, which I liked a lot - to quote the Wine Advocate on the Roilette Fleurie: " If the gourmand generosity and wealth of fruit of 2018 will win the domaine new friends, then the frag...

Jasper's at it again posting great videos on Instagram including one extremely frank one with Jeremy Seysses where he describes the vintage as difficult due to lack of rain. He also goes on to say that after seeing a couple early ferments, they will destem up to 30%+ rather than the usual 5%-15% be...

Not a lot of information out there, as they are never put up for tasting in the cellar. Although I checked the WA website and William Kelley seems to be able taste them. In my experience, they are not on the leaner spectrum. I don't know what vintages you have access to and if you can buy in 1 bottl...

Arnoux, yikes. I know in the other thread you said that no-till is proving to be a difficult choice this year, and those grapes look, to be honest, a bit raisinated and sickly. I see what they were going for - nice small berries with plenty of airspace - but it seems like they overshot. Do you thin...

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August 3rd, 2020, 11:30 am
Rougeard:
2013 Clos
2014 Clos
2014 Poyeux

Did you pay the same for 2013 and 2014? Prices went up ex-estate quite significantly from 2013 to 2014 (although still "reasonable").

When I tasted the 05s out of barrel I was blown away and then I thought about 71, a ripe vintage that went to sleep, that nobody ever tasted you on. I loaded up on Lafarge andMugnier and they are both good. I remember Becky Wasserman saying she thought 06 was the vintage to buy but I was broke when...

According to winehog, the burgundy harvest has started, remarkably early. https://winehog.org/the-2020-harvest-has-begun-42722/ What struck me however is the picture of unripe bunches on his site, supposedly taken mid-August. And look at how many: probably around 15 per plant. Top estates are probab...

Man those vines look thirsty. This film could be of a vineyard in Napa. Must be a hot start to August this year. DRC was cutting the small green berries on top of the plants ('verjus') in the RC vineyard when we were there. Apparently they don't always do it, but now it was to increase to a maximum...

I spent an hour in and around Vosne this morning (5 August), and took the time to speak to some people and make some videos. This one is a video of DRC Richebourg on the left and Leroy Richebourg on the right. The difference is quite visible on this video. Grapes look fantastic on both. Some informa...

We were discussing Chevalier-Montrachet earlier this year, and the other day a friend was out in the vines and shot this clip for me. We start looking at the Chevalier-Montrachet belonging to Philippe Colin; then we see the much higher, non-hedged canopies of Domaine d'Auvenay; and then the vines o...

Thanks. And the white stains, that's presumably bouillie bordelaise?

Are there other 100% grenache CdP wines worth checking out that aren't in the $100-200+/bottle category? I know Charvin is like 80%+ grenache. The Chapelle St Theodoric wines can be very nice! Based on this rec, my colleague will drop by Chapelle St Theodoric today - it seems that covid is helping ...

To pull this thread back to Back to William... what do you think about his Bordeaux palate and would you buy based on his rating? Never having had a Tertre Roteboeuf, I Picked up several bottles of 2010 based on his CT note (100 points!), and I’m curious if you would do the same, given your general...

2x 1980 Joseph Voillot Pommard 1er Cru Pezerolles. Stronger vintage in Côte de Nuits than Côte de Beaune, but this has such good provenance I reckon it will still be pretty tasty. 2x 1972 Michelot Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vaucrains - great color and fills. So you didn't get any of the older ...

I also subscribed to TWA last year, in support of William. My 2 cents: - he is an excellent taster, but an equally good (or even better?) writer with a lot of general knowledge about wine - I enjoy reading his in-depth articles a lot. - he lives a few months per year in Beaune, which is a great asse...

Thanks. I still have some 2009s laying around of these - there is some bottle variation, some wines taste overly mature compared to others.

A quick post to add some flavour to this. I was skimming through wine-related posts on facebook when I came across this one by Buisson-Charles in Meursault (Patrick Essa) from 5 June: " The vines are mostly in good health even if we have to observe here and there chlorosis spots a little more marked...

Drinking my first Roches Neuves Franc de Pied 2017 from a 3 pack - on the nose, a touch herbal, but in no way pronounced. Mineral, sweet red/dark fruit coming out. On the palate, it is remarkably "smooth" - no rough tannins, the wine can perfectly be drunk on its own. Medium length. In very general ...

Well, that is pretty much the average annual production of d'Auvenay Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet... And is the 2016 Montrachet actually any good? Or is that not the purpose of this bottling? I’ve been told it’s very impressive. Looking forward to the AM review. Purpose of the bottling.. in 2016 none o...

Claude Dugat?

2016 Montrachet is the one of the rarest bottles of Chardonnay ever. I have a good friend in Hong Kong who owns a bottle. He told me just 500 total bottles sold worldwide (that’s 1/10th typical production for each of the standing Domaines, let alone all of them combined) to VIP clients with their n...

Thank you Charlie - have been using the normal site quite regularly.

Yeah, exactly that! Plus the work in rolling the canopy by hand, instead of just driving through a tractor with spinning blades a few times during the season to trim the vines. Very cool. One of the things that has stuck with me recently was something Armand Heitz of Heitz-Lochardet said on a recen...

Again, thank goodness for actual wine writing! This should be interesting for all the wine geeks here. Don't know if this will actually make for better grapes, but the experiment is worth doing. I presume the treatment the D'Auvenay vines got before canopy management mentioned was copper sulfate, o...

Bill, My friends David and Jean are absolutely fabulous and an incredible source of information for the area they cover. Highly recommended. So looks like I'm getting some requests of winemakers to visit - many seem to be asking about Egon Müller - I have sent them an inquiry, so lets hope for the ...

I confirm it is remarkable - nowadays, with the online membership, you can participate in their thematic tasting, and samples get shipped even across borders (eg from London to Luxembourg) in a couple of days - no issues so far with heat damage.

Ditto on Bruno Lorenzon and Vincent Dureuil-Janthial! Had my first Lorenzon today, Mercurey Le Chapitre 2016 (around 25 EUR all-in). I must say I am impressed. Beautiful balanced nose, red fruits, herbs. I'd go for a mix between Gevrey (depth) and Chambolle (finesse) if I would compare with cote d'...

What will happen is continued improvement from places like the Haut Cote de Nuits and Cote de challonaise. Michael, I have been to the hautes cotes a few times (beautiful to bike!) and I can understand the impact of climate on the vineyards there. I have however never been to Cote Chalonnaise - is ...

Jozef, the low sulfites wine from Claire can be amazing, but better taste before buying, some vintage I didn't care for. About Lorenzon, I'm not exactly sure on the date of the shift but 2010 should be on the light style, 2011 definitely was (vintage helped but I don't think Bruno shift from 0 to 1...

Ok you guys are killin me, will pop a 2010 Croix Boissee this weekend. Nathan any comments on the 2018 line-up? If the 2018 Domaine and Les Grange were any indication, the rest of the lineup will be ridiculously good when released. I was told the Croix Boissée 2018 will only be released early next ...

Howard, you're welcome. Of the top of my head, a few words about each producer: Claire Naudin from Naudin-Ferrand has been making great * wines in the Hautes Cotes for quite some time. I believe I visited the estate for the first time in 2007. Her top cuvées are low/without sulfites and named for p...

Of course I had some leftover from the pork belly. I made a sauce based on Babi Ketjap paste and added cubed pork belly. Served with rice and cold pork belly slices on top. Finally I added fresh coriander from the garden including a silky-elegant 2019 Hofgut Falkenstein „Niedermenniger Herrenberg“ ...

AFAIK the difference between a Bourgogne and a Grand Cru, for labelling purposes, is in the provenance of the grapes. This leads me to conclude - and I might be saying something stupid here, but bear with me - that what makes the Grand Cru big and cellarworthy and the Bourgogne an easy drinker most...

OK thanks - was thinking this would be around 150 USD. I guess I was wrong.

Thank you William - are the trellising wires as high as in her grand crus in the cote de nuits? That would be crazy, as it's expensive and time consuming to farm this way. Then again, without checking, I assume the price is as high as a grand cru from the cote de nuits, so it might work out.

Does anyone have details on winemaking back in the day - I was told at the estate that they have always 100% destemmed.

Because of this topic I set out on a research mission. Y'all do not help with this (bad) habit. The Janthail was by far the best 2017 Dureuil-Janthial Meix Cadot VV - My goodness. The nose alone made me weak. It was like sticking your nose in a bushel of freshly cut flowers. Great wine all the way ...

following Wiliam KELLEY's rather positive evaluation It was a positive comment on two wines from the domaine in a single vintage. It was neither a positive nor negative evaluation of the domaine as a whole. I think that was quite clear. Agreed, and not that difficult to make good / decent red wines...

This made me dig up a bottle. Lamy-Caillat chassagne-montrachet 2017 - Touch of vanilla, grapefruit on the nose, so slightly more on citrus spectrum. Not exuberant. Quite delicate. On the palate, very fine acidity, not pronounced. Citrus fruit showing through as well. Good example of a wine picked a...

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6x Burlotto Acclivi 2016 at a good price - question is should I buy more, not having tasted the wine...
Yes.

That is not the answer I wanted to hear, or maybe it is...

6x Burlotto Acclivi 2016 at a good price - question is should I buy more, not having tasted the wine...

6x Alliet Chinon"VieillesVignes" 2018 6x Alliet Chinon"L’Huisserie" 2018 9x Alliet Chinon"CoteaudeNoiré" 2018 => first go at this producer - curious for thoughts as to when to try a first bottle 3x Thomas Bouley Pommard1ercru"LesFremiers" 2018 3x Thomas Bouley Volnay1ercru,ClosdesChênes 2018 => a se...

2002 Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Meix Chavaux - France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault (5/18/2020) Been a long week at work, needing something REALLY good, so Roulot it is!!! The misery continues...PREMOXED! [cry.gif] And not even remotely drinkable for just the slightest bit of pleasure anyw...

Cool. Sounds like everyone's thinking is tracking mine. As far as "what is there to lose?", I'll just say this: I'm really trying to avoid putting any more boring/whatever bottles in my cellar. :) But at 25 USD, it would still make a good wine at an ok price for a coq au vin if the wine is boring -...

Here a tweak to the recipe with infusion of garlic and gianciale fat - from Mauro Uliassi, a *** chef - recipe is not difficult. But all stands or falls with the quality of the guanciale, eggs and parmesan/pecorino mixture.

Any similar pictures of the Bouchard section. Interested because it is the one I buy. Not to hand, but it's nicely farmed. This was really just an off-the-cuff exercise, but I'm encouraged to repeat it more seriously. Any other plots folks would be curious to virtually check out? There could be so ...

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