Today early start at Domaine Marc Roy in Gevrey Chambertin … tasting 2024 vintage from the bottle … impressions from the 2024 tasting will follow soon. I also tasted the 2025 vintage ... very much different from the 2024s, but very delightful wines ... harvested before the rain, i.e. before …
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Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair 2021 – retasted
Sometimes pure luck strikes ... and one stumbles into a tasting of the Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair 2021 lineup. Please note this was an informal and quick tasting at the Comte Liger-Belair Cuverie in Vosne-Romanée. Very enjoyable to taste with Henry and Brune Liger-Belair alongside …
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Roisin Curley the Irish rose
I have many sources and friends in Burgundy, who give me ideas about who to visit next. I also have good friends who tell me who to visit rapidly and who to put on the waiting list. I can not visit all ... never was my ambition, but hopefully I can recommend some good wines ... and expand the …
Faiveley … 200 years – and then the whites
Tasting old Burgundies is a rare treat, as wines from the 1930s, 40s are getting very difficult to find in good condition these days. Domaine Faiveley did not have a large production of top-end whites before 2008. Faivelay produced the Corton-Charlemagne for quite many years, and since 2008 …
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Reno Pacalet … a new Pacalet in Burgundy!
I have known Philippe Pacalet for years ... almost 25 years actually ... and it has always been a great pleasure to taste his wines ... first from Domaine Prieure-Roch and then later at Maison Philippe Pacalet (since 2001). Now we have news from the Pacalets ... Philippe Pacalets son Reno …
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