Archive for January 2017
The annual tasting of the new releases from Bouchard Père et Fils is always a fascinating event combined, as it is, with a showing of the new vintage from the Chablis producer William Fèvre (both Bouchard and Fèvre being under the ownership of Champagne Henriot).I find that many…
N.B. I need a pretty instant response about these wines: by (very) early next week at the latest.Please let me know ASAP if they're of interest.On 12th December last year I attended a tasting in St James's. It's an annual invitation and one that one would find rather hard to rebuff, for deep in a su…
The 2015 Burgundy vintage has produced wines of a diverse range of styles. Yet, at its best, it has thrown up very special things. I have selected wines that have charmed and impressed me: wines of purity, freshness and beauty.We have now released the lion's share of our 2015 burgundy offerings, a s…
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…
Trompe l'oeil scene on the wall at the Domaine François LamarcheAs reported in my blogging during my visit to Burgundy, I was lucky enough to taste through the range of 2015s at Domaine François Lamarche alone with Nicole Lamarche, who has undertaken all wine making activities for a nu…