This week Robert Collins is flying low over the villages, vineyards and vintages of Burgundy. BEST BGO IN TOWN! A few years ago, I discovered a cellar outside of Lyon that was for sale, the owner had bought many bottles from Domaine Georges Mugneret in previous decades. One wine, vintage 1982, was …
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Collins Corner #22 – Vintages: Not just a numbers game!
This week Robert Collins is flying low over the villages, vineyards and vintages of Burgundy. VINTAGES : NOT JUST A NUMBERS GAME! Does it add up? Sometimes you are trapped when you try to reduce life’s experiences to a CFO’s balance sheet. Behind the vintage are many emotions, and your …
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Côte de Nuits Villages: How and why?
The Côte de Nuits Villages appellation offers lovely wines - but it is rather confusingly a mix of villages where some are fully, and some only partly, a "part" of the appellation. While this has worked for decades, a more logical organisation would perhaps strengthen the marketing point of …
Collins Corner #21 – Gaps in the maps.
I have always been fascinated with vineyards next to, almost part, or otherwise related to the 'expensive and famous'. One commune with a wealth of riches is the iconic 'Chambertin', or properly Gevrey Chambertin. I felt at one time the power families of this area appropriated vineyards …
Collins Corner #20 – The numbers game
A flood of statistics have been created in the rush to find the first and best information on red Burgundies. If numbers are to be believed, Recently with 2014,15,16,17,and the 2018 , 'Outstanding' numbers proliferate. The best headlines are reserved for 2015 and now 2018, although the latter is …