I’m back drinking, hooray! I’ve slept for the last two nights and I haven’t thrown up in two days. This is excellent news, which together with the vast quantities of happy drugs I’ve been given have all worked together to put a big smile on my face. Sadly this is the last vintage of Domaine [...]
This is the world’s most expensive coffee which is made in Indonesia from beans that have been eaten and crapped out by civet cats. I had this when I was in Flores (wild place, man), it was smooth but very silty. Not amazingly nice, if we are honest. I mention this because the coffee is [...]
Well, we’ll be eating steak tartare, and drinking all that is listed below. Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Clavoillon 2001, Domaine Leflaive This smells really toasty, with round, buxom lemony fruit there. It is really creamy and mineral. Smells, perfectly balanced between youth and maturity. The palate is really fat and full-bodied, but has great fruit and [...]
This is a rant about art. More specifically, people’s reaction to art. Now this is something that gets me very irritated but I shall try and keep this brief as it is not about wine. We own a couple of display cases with ceramics on them. One has Sarah-Jane Selwood stuff in it: Look at [...]
Burgundy for heroes! Gevrey-Chambertin “Mes Favorites Vieilles Vignes” 2005, Domaine Alain Burguet A lovely, expressive nose of ripe black cherry fruit, smells divine. No distracting wood, this is pure fruit and Gevrey class. The palate has big tannins, and quite high acidity, but lovely fruit and real style. It is very long. This is a [...]
Heavy petrol action here. Riesling Spatlese Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr 1999, Fritz Haag Lots of petrol on the nose, also one hell of a lot of lemon/citrus fruit. This is lovely, but the addition of the slatey minerality makes this wine very satisfying on the nose. Cripes the palate is delicious. The intellectual tension between the acidity, [...]
The wine is delicious, though. My first taste of one of the Chavy son’s wines after Gerard died a few years ago. Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru les Pucelles 2005, Domaine Alain Chavy A detailed, intense nose of stone and fruit. It smells a tad green. There is refreshingly little oak there, but what oak character there [...]
It is true. I like some of the Chardonnays and Semillons, but Riesling is where it is at and Grosset is the address to go to in Australia. Riesling “Polish Hill” 2006, Grosset A very pure, direct nose of lime fruit, with a rich gravelly undercurrent. This smells like it’ll hurt my stomach, but pain [...]
This wine has had a lot of skin contact. Very different to the . Chablis Grand Cru les Clos 2005, J-P & B Droin This smells very fresh and green, but with a good depth of lemony fruit and a pleasing play-dough minerality. There is the merest hint of oakiness, but that is just fine. [...]
Much is talked about premature oxidation of white Burgundy, this doesn’t suffer from that in the slightest. Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Clos de la Mouchere 2001, Jean Boillot A lovely, nutty, buttery nose with nice ripe lemon fruit and a good mineral tang. This smells fresh and lovely, pretty god-damned complex too. The nose is a [...]
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