Category: Wine
Polls
The new design for Elitistreview has been live for a few weeks; I hope my regular readers have got over the shock of change and are finding it an …
Burgundy
Since writing up my two tastings in Germany I’ve been furiously dismantling the flat trying to find my lost my tasting notebook – it seems to have disappeared. Bit …
Burgundy
Elitistreview is five years old today, hooray! Five years of opinion, rants and general lunacy. There have been some difficult times, very difficult times, but one hell of a …
Germany
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 …
Burgundy
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; …
Burgundy
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 …
Germany
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 …
Burgundy
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 …
Germany
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 …
Rhône
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 …