Wine is all about enjoying and meeting people - meeting wine friends, geeks and other festive people in a lovely place like Burgundy is a treat. Focus should be on enjoyable wines, that being a fresh and simple pét-nat, a lovely Aligoté from Maï Roblin-Bazin or Chambolle-Musigny from …
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Visiting Alexandrine Roy of Marc Roy
I have visited Alexandrine Roy for more than 10 years ... with the first vintage visit being the 2014 vintage. There is a reason why I have been coming back year after year to visit Alexandrine Roy: Domaine Marc Roy was one of the first estates that naturally entered my mind when I was thinking of …
Flavour of the Year 2027 – Domaine Leovila
I already named Domaine Edouard Confuron Flavour of the Year in 2026, so naming another estate Flavour of the Year in 2026 would be a breach of protocol. So we need to jump into the future ... almost inspired by the very early harvest in 2026. So here we go ... Flavour of the Year 2027 Flavour …
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Visiting Jeremy Seysses at Domaine Dujac
Domaine Dujac and I go back decades, from the truly memorable 1976 Clos Saint Denis to the most recent vintages made under the stewardship of Jeremy Seysses. For me, it is more and more a return to the style of his father, Jacques Seysses, with the whole cluster invigorating the wines. It's …
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Taste and select
Most producers in Burgundy make several wines, often more than 10, some more than 30 different cuvees and some even more than 100 wines in their Burgundian factories. With global warming, the demands on harvest timing have increased dramatically, and more and more wines suffer the consequences of …