The 2013 vintage was an unlikely candidate for vintage of the moment or vin d'émotion when the wines were launched, as many of the reds were slightly or quite extracted and edgy. Many of them are now mature or close to full maturity. Both red and whites offer a gorgeous cool complexity of mature …
Vintage Report
Vintage of the moment – 2017
The 2017 vintage is turning into a veritable treasure chest of gorgeously expressive reds and whites. They are not fully mature but many of them can be smashingly beautiful. They have a gorgeously playful fruit with lovely and lively complexity. Global warming sweetness is under reasonable …
2022s: Past the Halfway Mark
I have now completed the first half of my 2022 tastings, with numerous domaines visited and the wines still relatively early in their development. So here is my mid-point assessment of the vintage, and after having looked at my initial view of the '22s, I think the evaluation then was pretty …
My First Impressions of 2022
I have had my first tastings of the 2022 wines at several domaines, and let’s be realistic: It is early in their development. Still, after having tasted at (amongst a few others) Nicolas Faure, Bastian Wolber, Bastien Gautheron, Comte de Vogüė, and now Comte Liger-Belair, I'm going to make an early …
2019, 2020, and 2021
The 2019 vintage is a truly great year for red Burgundy, and the whites are also growing on me as time goes by. The '19s have a hedonistic flair in their details that makes them both complex and delicate, while both the reds and whites seduce you with gorgeous generosity. The 2020s are a …