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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Grand Cru Burgundy: Romanée-St-Vivant
30 Sep 2020: The first in our series looking at individual grand crus in detail, will focus on Romanée-St-Vivant, the quintessential vineyard capable of displaying the hallmark of Vosne-Romanée, as sh...
1 Feb 20211h 9min
