Matching "Volnay" Tag
Posted in by Caspar Bowes
09 February 2018
The short crop very much in evidence here, as most of these are available in minuscule quantities. Yet nowhere is that true-ism about high quality following a natural shortfall more evident. These 2016s from the venerable house of Bouchard Père et Fils are exceptionally lo…
Bertrand Chevillon looking as content as a man who has fashioned exceptionally beautiful 2015 burgundyI am often asked that most confusing of questions: what are your picks of wines from your offer? Now if I were working for one of the larger UK wine merchants and I was selling wines that had been c…
Smoking mists descending from the Hautes CôtesIt's always a pleasure to find a new source of fine wine and at an importer tasting of 2015 burgundy last week I did just that.In a vast room full of some extremely celebrated names, I came across the red Côte de Beaune wines of Francois Buff…
Frédéric Lafarge in the hobbit holeOur first foray into the 2015 Burgundy vintage is hardly a burgundy at all, yet the hand that made these wines belongs to one of the most celebrated of all Côte d'Or wine producers.Beaujolais is included in the greater Burgundy area, yet in wine…
I offer the wines of Domaine Joseph Voillot in Volnay every vintage. Owner (since father-in-law M Voillot's death last year) and wine maker Jean-Pierre Charlot is one of the most intuitive men to craft red wine in the Côte de Beaune.Jean-Pierre was a lecturer in wine making at the Lycée…
