Grands Echézeaux
26 Nov 2020: Following up from the success of our events looking at Bonnes Mares and Chambertin Clos de Bèze, we extend the illumination of individual grands crus to Grands Echezeaux. Will we find mor...
15 Feb 20211h 8min
Carel Voorhuis of Camille Giroud - Interviewed by Jasper
14 Jan 2021: Camille Giroud has tiny vineyard holdings in Beaune; otherwise relying on contracts from as far afield as Marsannay and Maranges, with particular strengths in Corton and the Gevrey Chambe...
15 Feb 20211h 3min
Beaujolais: Moulin-à-Vent
8 Oct 2020: The most powerful of the Beaujolais crus and the most age-worthy is surely Moulin-à-Vent, a wine which can seem positively Burgundian as it ages. It has also caught the eye of various Côte...
9 Feb 20211h 10min
Grand Cru Burgundy: Chambertin Clos de Bèze
13 Oct 2020: The second in our grand cru series features Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze, sibling or perhaps consort of Chambertin itself. This wine was so brilliantly described by Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Re...
9 Feb 20211h 10min
Heading to the Back Country of the Côte de Beaune
27 Oct 2020: Why should we let the Montrachets, Meursault, Volnay and Pommard get all the glory? There are three delightful villages set in the valleys behind the main Côte which are delivering steadi...
9 Feb 20211h 12min
Bonnes Mares
4 Nov 2020: Bonnes Mares – one of the great grand crus of Burgundy, fascinating and just a touch schizophrenic: does it belong in Chambolle-Musigny or Morey-St-Denis? Do we prefer the brown soil or t...
9 Feb 20211h 10min
2010 Red Horizontal
31 Aug 2020: 2010 has proven to be an unsuspected star for the red wines of Burgundy. It did not feel like a great vintage at the time, overshadowed by the sunshine of 2009, but opinions started to im...
1 Feb 20211h 11min
Chambolle-Musigny Combe d’Orveau
9 Sep 2020: This unusual vineyard in Chambolle-Musigny should not be overlooked. It is the only lieu-dit in all of Burgundy which has four classifications from generic to grand cru (as part of Musigny...
1 Feb 20211h 7min
