Back in 2015 we hosted a tasting and then dinner that I wrote up in the post called Clos de Tart Day. This was to celebrate the vintages that Sylvain Pitiot oversaw and to welcome Jacques Devauges. B...

I have worked with the Bonneau du Martray wines since the 2000 vintage so all the usual bias warnings apply here. This was a rather different dinner because it was a chance to say “au revoir” (b...

I was delighted to visit Domaine Leflaive back in October and taste the Domaine Leflaive 2015s… it was a super tasting. This post, as the title suggests, covers a tasting at C&B HQ of some of ...

Back in May I made the annual trip to see Roberto Conterno and taste the new releases at Cantina Giacomo Conterno along with a few other wines (I love my job). One of the things we discussed with Ro...

Each year we are delighted to welcome Franck Grux to London to do a tasting of the, just to be released, vintage from Olivier Leflaive, last year it was the 2014s so of course this year it follows ...

When we visited Chateau Rocheyron we managed to get a few minutes with Peter Sisseck. You may know him from Pingus or PSI but his Bordeaux property is a completely different proposition. ...

A few weeks back before everything got ever more manic with Christmas and the pre-Burgundy season (January) workload we were delighted to have Jean-Charles le Bault de La Moriniere of Bonneau du Ma...

This is my notes from a tasting and presentation of the Olivier Leflaive 2014’s by the winemaker and Olivier’s right hand man Franck Grux. Franck is a great man to listen too as he manages to...

So, this Skype-tasting with Stephane Vivier, Hyde Villaine’s Winemaker, from back in July has taken me far too long to write up. The estate itself has a cracking website with lots of information...

Friday before last we had Olivier Leflaive and Franck Grux in town to show the unfinished, but about to be released, 2013’s. The 2013 vintage is “small again”, not as much work as the  2012...