Category: Rhône
Rhône
I’ve just opened another bottle of Domaine St. Pierre Cornas 1995 from Jaboulet. My last note on it seems pretty accurate to me, so I won’t bother boring you …
Burgundy
Two lovely friends around for dinner last night. This is what we ate, and the list below is what we drank. Champagne Cuvée Nicolas-François 1996, Billecart-Salmon Lots of fruit …
Burgundy
Yesterday’s dinner party started at half six and went on until four in the morning, cripes! No wonder I felt a tad the worse for wear this morning. Champagne …
Rhône
Clape Cornas was the subject of my first wine article to get published. I wanted to call it ‘A dose of the Clape’ but the journal editor re-named it …
Rhône
We got a few bottles of this at auction a few years ago for less than the release price of the then-current vintage. Every bottle I have had has …
Burgundy
Some good stuff planned with dinner tonight. Riesling Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Auslese 1994, Fritz Haag This seems quite youthful on the nose. There is a great purity of fruit, but …
Rhône
Last time I had this wine I was presented it blind. Then I thought it was Alain Graillot’s Crozes-Hermitage and tasting it again that seems like a very understandable …
Rhône
I had this wine just before going into hospital. I’ve just found my note so I can finally publish it. I’ve got two more bottles of this wine in …
Rhône
I went to Oxford today to visit my cellar and pick up some wines to drink over the next month or so. I got eighteen bottles and two magnums; …
Rhône
The last bottle of this that I had seemed strangely backward. This is a lot more pleasurable. Côte-Rôtie 1997, Jasmin A lovely nose of ripe red fruit and earth. …
