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Recent Posts
- Star Wine List, a guide to wine bars and restaurants May 24, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Montreuil-aux-Lions, the westernmost of all Champagne villages April 7, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Saâcy-sur-Marne, the westernmost Champagne village on the Marne river April 4, 2019
- Some reds from Binet-Jacquet in Faguères April 1, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Nanteuil-sur-Marne on the right bank of the Marne valley March 28, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Crouttes-sur-Marne on the right bank of the Marne valley March 25, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Bézu-le-Guéry on the right bank of the Marne valley March 24, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Domptin on the right bank of the Marne valley March 23, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Villiers-Saint-Denis on the right bank of the Marne valley March 22, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Citry on the left bank of the Marne valley March 20, 2019
Upcoming posts
- Bonneau du Martray and Comte Georges de Vogüé, the 2015 vintage (tasted in 2017).
- Domaine de la Romanée Conti, the 2014 vintage (tasted in 2017).
- A visit to Goisot in Saint-Bris (in the summer of 2017).
Champagne village profiles
- After all villages now have been profiled, updates of older entries is ongoing.
- All 17 grand cru villages and all 42 premier cru villages have been profiled, with Le Mesnil-sur-Oger being the last grand cru out, and Vertus the last premier cru.
- Area profile of Vallée de la Marne Ouest, the last area profile, now added.
- All villages in the Terroir de Condé area have been added.
- Alphabetical list of villages (A-V) added for easier access to existing village profiles.
- Older profiles that have recently been significantly updated: March 2019: Merfy, Thil, Boursault, Vauciennes, Mardeuil, January 2019: Saint-Martin-d’Ablois, December 2018: Romery, Cormoyeux, Bligny (Vesle et Ardre), Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Fleury-la-Rivière, Avenay-Val-d’Or, November 2018: Étoges, Écueil, August 2018: Rilly-la-Montagne, Damery, July 2018: Venteuil.
- Status as of 7 April: 319 out of 319 villages done + 1 other location profile. Village #100 was La Neuville-aux-Larris, #150 was Cuis, #200 was Bar-sur-Seine, #250 was Vindey, #300 was Brasles, and #319 was Montreuil-aux-Lions.
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Category Archives: Australia
Penfolds Shiraz Masterclass
At the end of February, The Wine Advocate, the wine magazine of Robert Parker, invited to their own wine event in London, called ”Matter of Taste”. It consisted of a sizeable walkaround tasting, in principle featuring only “RP 90+” wines, and a … Continue reading
Mixed news including several Burgundies
A couple of weeks ago, the Stockholm branch of the wine tasting club Munskänkarna held a tasting of news in the range of the Swedish alcohol monopoly. Although I sometimes lead tastings in Munskänkarna, I was not guilty of choosing the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Burgundy, California, Chardonnay, Grenache, Munskänkarna, Nebbiolo, Piedmont, Pinot Noir, Rosé, Sangiovese, South Australia, Syrah, Tuscany
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Mixed AGM wines including four French, three Aussies, three Germans, and one Turk
Our wine tasting club AuZone recent held its annual general meeting, and tradition dictates that some liquid painkillers and some blood sugar-boosting nutrition are administered before we move on to boring stuff like audit report, budget, membership fees and so … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, AuZone, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Mosel, Pfalz (Palatinate), Pinot Noir, Rhône, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Turkey
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Wine tasting club dinner
Our wine tasting club AuZone always arranges a dinner towards the end of November. The number of seats is rather suitable for one magnum of each wine, so there’s usually rather many wines from that bottle format. This year we included ten wines, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, AuZone, Baden, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon, California, Champagne, Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, Loire, Pinot Noir, Rhône, Riesling, Syrah, Trentino-Alto Adige, Wachau
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Chassagne- and Puligny-Montrachet tasting
A couple of weeks ago, there was a tasting in our wine tasting club AuZone on the theme of Chassagne- and Puligny-Montrachet. So we’re talking about white Burgundy from the epicentre, but this time the idea was to present wines … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, AuZone, Burgundy, California, Chardonnay, New Zealand
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Fine wine BYO with some interesting coincidences
Earlier this summer there was again a fine wine-oriented BYO pulled together via a forum called finewines.se. As usual some truly high-class wines, but unlike some of the earlier editions, Champagne made up less than half the wines, and there … Continue reading
Posted in Burgundy, Chablis, Champagne, Chardonnay, Grenache, Pinot Noir, Port, Rhône, South Australia, Syrah
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Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay
There are times when I take the good old phrase from Monty Python – “and now for something completely different” – to heart and abandon not just France but Europe and the Old World entirely, and send my palate to … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, AuZone, Chardonnay, New Zealand
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Henschke Masterclass at Decanter – Australian top-level Shiraz
It was quite interesting to see the themes of the six Masterclasses that were held in connection with this year’s Decanter Fine Wine Experience. Three were each devoted to one well-known Bordeaux château – Pichon Baron, Palmer and Figeac. A … Continue reading
Grosset Polish Hill Riesling
I arranged a tasting the in the wine tasting club on the theme Grosset Polish Hill Riesling. I served five vintages of Polish Hill and one of Watervale, another Riesling from Grosset. Polish Hill, which is produced in Clare Valley … Continue reading
Stella Bella Chardonnay 2008
Decanter magazine recently went through 116 Australian Chardonnays from 2007, 2008 and 2009, and awarded five of them a “Decanter award”. A short report on this can be read here. One of these five turned out to be available in a nearby outlet for Aussie wines at … Continue reading
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