Romanée A hot year – you could say quite a dry one – but, as you can see, not dry finishing for the later pickers. The rain was quite strong in the Côte ...

The 2025 harvest has started with more of a whimper than a bang, so today (the weekend) I saw fewer teams picking in the vines. There are some plots of reds being picked – but almost always they are ...

Let us concentrate on the Côte d’Or: There are 4 potential ‘levels’ of wine which you can find in Burgundy, and one other that is interesting to discuss. Those levels are : Starting, where-else but at ...

Côte d’Or updated based on most recent experiences, and adding the latest (2019 and estimates for 2020) vintage. And, of-course, also updating the tables for both Chablis and Beaujolais. The Côte d’Or ...

Of-course, the most astute and detail-conscious of you will note an issue with the ‘title’ for this page – there is no ‘village’ of Saint-Véran, but for the sake of consistency with the other AOC ...

A very discrete operation here, for the moment I don’t have a telephone number or an internet URL – but there are more important things in life – like wines – and here I found some great wines! It ...

A few images from Thursday with the team of the Hospices de Beaune The weekend is offering a nice respite from the rain of last week – though more rain is forecast for Monday, ie tomorrow: ...

Today, it’s a sunny start in Beaune (right) – the people around town have smiles. Hereabouts, the size of grapes have generally been smaller this year – despite almost a hundred millimetres ...

I make no apologies for placing such a large warning sign against this producer. Anyone who is still tempted to invest in these wines, should do so with absolute clarity about the true position of the ...

A new report is now online. Here. The April 2025 report has 34 producers and, mainly, their 2023s – though a few 2024s are starting to slip into the list … 2023 Beaujolais is largely over for me, but ...

– Inter Beaujolais – the marketing board for the Beaujolais region – describe the 2021 vintage as combative. – 2021 was a complicated year in terms of both the weather conditions and the amount of ...