Sometimes I worry that my tastes are somewhat narrow. I like French wine, Burgundy most of all, and a few villages in particular. I’ve written up wines on here and I’ve just ordered another bottle for general drinking over the up-coming weeks. I do really like Morey-St.-Denis wines, I’d drink a lot more Dujac on [...]
Whilst drinking this Riesling from Boxler my thoughts turn to how much I love Riesling. It is just such a versatile grape, from dry, linear excitement, via rich, fat jollity to elegant sweetness it covers most of the bases one would want in a white wine. I admit, it doesn’t do oaky power, but it [...]
Of my rather minimalist achievements this year some of the best have been to get on the private clients’ list of a few producers. On my visit to Alsace this summer I arranged to buy from Domaine Bruno Sorg and Domaine Albert Boxler every year. I was surprised when Boxler said my allocation could well [...]
So said Brillat-Savarin, and he has had a cheese named after him so he must have been a gentleman of taste and style. When I think back to some of the wines I’ve savoured and reported on in this spume of drivel I have to say I agree. I recall wines like the various Clos [...]
It is my birthday soon, sadly. A few friends are meeting up for a nice meal and the wines have already been decided upon. Oddly there will be a lot of Burgundy consumed. As I muse upon those lovely wines that will be consumed in great company I find myself thinking about how good things [...]
The last wine written up is my idea of a fine wine. It is balanced, interesting and beautiful. I admit some good wines may lack one of these factors, but if something is really going to do rude things to my sense of smell and taste it has to hit these spots. This is a [...]
This is not going to be a tasting note, it is going to be a rant. Partly because I feel so personally offended by this wine, but largely because I have been obliged to drink half a bottle of the booze-tastic horror. Macon Villages Cuvée Tradition E. J. Thévenet Domaine de la Bongran, Jean Thévenet [...]
There will be a slight bias toward Burgundy in this blog and there will be many rants about my burning passion for the best stuff. I fancy a good glass of de Courcel* at the moment, but as I don’t have any here I will have to content myself with a quick demonstration of my [...]
Every single wine book claims to de-mystify wine, be for ‘the common man’ or makes laughable claims about the incredible ubiquity and cheapness of fine wine. I have no interest in spouting such drivel. I am very much of the opinion that nice things are nicer than nasty things and as such I want to [...]
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