Tour de Beaune
3 Mar 2021: Beaune may be the headquarters of the Burgundy wine trade but we often overlook the appellation when making our choices. There are so many great wines to choose from with variations in sty...
8 Mar 202159min
Domaine Ponsot – Vertical Tasting
23 Feb 2021: There is history of innovation here with it being one of the first Domaines to practice estate bottling in the 1930s, and perhaps more significantly the Ponsots were among the first growe...
28 Feb 20211h 5min
Gevrey-Chambertin Cazetiers
18 Feb 2021: Roll over Clos St-Jacques? Not necessarily, but in terms of value for money, Les Cazetiers is a strong contender for providing exceptional quality at a more-or-less fair price. The next d...
25 Feb 20211h 3min
Olivier Merlin and the New Generation
19 Jan 2021: Olivier wanted to feature the 2018 vintage including his new parcels in Clos de France, Côte Rôtie and En Crêches to introduce these wines and this was also the year that his two sons joi...
23 Feb 20211h 6min
Rugiens Rex? King of Pommard
4 Feb 2021: The leading candidate for promotion to grand cru in Pommard is Les Rugiens, the deepest and richest wine that Pommard can offer. The whole appellation is on an upswing, benefitting from gl...
23 Feb 20211h 2min
Chassagne-Montrachet under the Microscope
11 Feb 2021: Are you a Puligny person or a Meursault fan? Hang on, what about Chassagne? The appellation is sometimes criticised because there is too much red wine territory which has been set to prod...
23 Feb 20211h 5min
Ancient Vines
12 Nov 2020: Just how important is vine age in Burgundy? Producers like to wax lyrical about their Vieilles Vignes and the received wisdom is that old vines make for more concentrated wines. We will t...
15 Feb 20211h 4min
1855 Revisited: Tete de Cuvée Vineyards
17 Nov 2020: Dr Lavalle, author of a celebrated book about the Côte d’Or published in 1855, classified certain vineyards as Tete de Cuvée. Some of these were then and remain now very famous (Chamberti...
15 Feb 20211h 9min
