Due to the low yields caused by frost damage in April there will be no 2016 Montrachet from six owners of Montrachet. They will instead make one cuvée together - two casks equivalent to 600 bottles. It's the estates Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Comte Lafon, Domaine Leflaive, Guy Amiot, Lamy …
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Harvest Impressions
We start out with the team of Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair - here harvesting the Echezeaux plots in the climat Champ Traversin - at the top of the Echezeaux vineyard. Photo: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair From the top of Echezeaux to the cellar of Maison Chantereves in Savigny-Les-Beaune …
Harvest impressions … 2016
I have collected some harvet impressions from Facebook and other sources .. just to get an impresion of the progress - the mood and quality. First out a message from one of the smallest estate in Burgundy - an estate with great talet and promise - the Facebook translation is not perfect ... but …
Harvest 2016 … first reports of picking in Cote de Beaune
The troublesome vintage 2016 is now at the final stage in the vineyards. Domaine Hubert Lamy began to pick some Saint-Aubin on Wednesday September 14th, and is picking some Chassagne today. Photo from Chassagene Montrachet - Source Olivier Lamy The quantities are small but reports of fine …
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Very old Burgundies on auction in September
Finding old Burgundies of high quality and with a good and well documented provenance is getting increasingly difficult. There are however still some large cellars in Beaune - and now you have the chance to buy some very old wines from the deep and mighty cellars of Bouchard Pere et …
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