About a Curve Ball and Episode 1 Beaune is actually a lovely place, but it will take quite a bit of work to make the Nuitons (inhabitants of Nuits-Saints-Georges) admit that they really enjoy Beaune. Beaune is a beautiful small city of about 20000 inhabitants ... enough to give many of the …
Rude or Nude
Episode 2: a Curve Ball to the 2024 vintage
About a Curve Ball and Episode 1 The 2024 harvest is less than one month away and reports on quality and even style are starting to fill the media. At Domaine Bretta, they expect a small but good to very good harvest. The harvest on sale is always the best and the favourite of Marcel Bretta … …
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a Curve Ball in Burgundy …
The Burgundians are sensitive people, and for that, I love them. Pride in family, village and the institutions. Tradition in Burgundy is very important. Compared to Denmark, these values seem to hold much more weight ... local relations are truly important. These values however can sometimes make …
Damn … too sticky and too ripe
Global warming is producing more and more phenolically ripe and richer wines. The wines are getting riper and riper, and those with lesser, or smaller, terroirs are losing the crucial balance between sweet ripe fruit and freshness in the form of acidity, terroir and energy. Let's face it ... in …
Tedious or – Worse – Annoying Wines
This week I was planning a small yet, apparently, controversial expansion to the vin d'emotion scale to include the missing bottom end, meaning the wines I don't enjoy, or that are simply bad. This turned out to be highly charged. Calling a wine awful is clearly too much for delicate French …