When I tried the 2009s at Howard Ripley’s tasting this stood out as being a top wine. I had forgotten I had already purchased a bottle from the Wine Society for speculative tasting purposes. What a good purchase it was, this wine is just fantastic.
In very ripe vintages like 2009, the lesser quality-level wines can often provide the highest quality/price ratio for the careful buyer…
Alain Burguet was one of the very first producers I visited in Burgundy back in 1994, consequently it I have a bit of a soft spot for his wines; good job they are consistently top performers! The Mes Favorites (just called Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes back then) is regularly better than his Gevrey Premier Crus and is clearly one of the best village wines on the Cote…
The 2005 example of this wine was quite a charming little drink so I felt quite safe buying some of the 2006. My first taste of it repels me and my fellow drinkers to such an extent that I don’t think we can finish it.
When a producer of such renown as Chandon de Briailles makes such a repulsive wine from such a good vineyard you’ve got to wonder what…
Goldtropfchen is a brilliant vineyard, but until relatively recently no one has been exploiting it to its full potential. When you taste a golden-hued, deliciously fruity wine like this you can see that top wines can be made and so applaud Reinhold Haart for the efforts he has gone to and shout “Shame!” at all those other producers who are wasting their patches of this great vineyard.
As an aside,…
I don’t drink Beaune wines that often as they rarely engorge my passions, but I got a hot tip that Domaine de Montille were not finding theirs so easy to sell and so prices are currently especially keen…
When Willi Schaefer replied in the affirmative to my email asking for a tasting I could have kissed my computer screen. His wines never fail to have me moaning and sighing with uncontrolled ecstasy; I love them unreservedly and so trying some in the company of the man himself promised to be an oenological treat of the highest order…
Jancis Robinson tells us, in her excellent book Vines, Grapes and Wines: The Wine Drinker’s Guide to Grape Varieties, that the grape from which this is made, Marsanne, smells not unpleasantly like glue. This wine certainly has that character and it is true I am not repelled by this odd set of aromas…
When I was a student at Oxford I used to buy plenty of Muller-Catoir wines, so many that the wine merchant put neck labels on the bottles saying “David Strange highly recommends this wine”…
Many countries are perfectly happy to swipe the names of fine, usually French, wine growing regions for their pale imitations of the real thing. I never expected the French to sink to such depths: look at the labels below that I saw whilst on holiday.
It does not even claim to be made by a New Zealand winemaker…
Lunch yesterday was a real treat for the Elitistreview team. Not only because we were dining at Hawksmoor, London’s best meat restaurant, nor due to the array of ambrosial wines we had to ingurgitate, but most definitely because we were dining with our favourite Australian winemaker, the distinctly charming Mac Forbes, and his delightful UK agents…
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