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 ...

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, they are particularly thankful ...

Commune(s) of production 16 communes north and south of Beaune: Côte-d’Or: Auxey-Duresses, Blagny, Chassagne-Montrachet, Chorey-lès-Beaune, Ladoix-Serrigny ...

Tasted in Meursault with Guillaume Lavollée, 27 May 2025. Domaine Génot-Boulanger 25 rue de Citeaux 21190 Meursault Tel: +33 3 80 21 49 20 www.genot-boulanger.com Guillaume’s Instagram More reports ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certainly in the context of ‘greater Burgundy,’ it’s still early days in the 2025 harvest. That said, some white domaines pushed hard and were already finished on Wednesday evening – but why the haste ...