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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: Chenin Blanc
Two 2016s from Ludovic Chanson
In June I tasted two Ludovic Chanson wines sold in Sweden by Caviste, both 2016s. The Ludovic Chanson wines usually originate from the Montlous-sur-Loire appellation in the Loire Valley and are then made exclusively using Chenin Blanc grapes, just as their across-the-river … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Chenin Blanc, France, Gros Manseng, Loire
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Moulin Touchais 1949-1999
Just over a year ago, in September 2014, I led a vertical tasting of Moulin Touchais with Munskänkarna in Stockholm, a wine tasting club. Moulin Touchais is a sweet wine from the Coteaux du Layon appellation in the middle part of the … Continue reading
Some dry Loire Chenin Blancs presented by Caviste
Caviste is a highly focused Swedish-French online wine merchant, selling wine by themed and mixed 6-bottles boxes, one at a time. One week before Christmas, he presented his last launch of 2014. That box contains two dry white wines from the middle part … Continue reading
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Visit to Huet in Vouvray last summer
Last summer, at the end of June 2013, I visited the wine producer Huet in Vouvray together with a friend from Brussels. We did a two day visit to the middle part of Loire, i.e., the land of Chenin Blanc wines. … Continue reading
Visit to Vignobles Touchais, the producer of Moulin Touchais
This summer I visited Vignobles Touchais in the village of Doué-la-Fontaine in the central part of the Loire wine region. Their wine Moulin Touchais is a sweet wine from the Coteaux du Layon appellation, produced from Chenin Blanc grapes. The residual sugar level of Moulin Touchais is … Continue reading
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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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Muscadet and other Loire wines from Sauvion, and some thoughts about Muscadet
Yes, it’s time for yet another set of “tasting notes lost and found”. In this case, of wines from Maison Sauvion in Loire. When I recently tasted a new vintage of one of their wines, I realised that I never posted an English … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, Loire, Melon de Bourgogne, Sauvignon Blanc
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BYO with mostly prestige Champagne
Mid-July a couple of us gather for a BYO evening to taste som prestige Champagnes, although a few other bottles also managed to come along. The wines were served more or less blind. Michel Lenique Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Cabernet Sauvignon, Champagne, Chenin Blanc, Loire, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
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BYO on Maundy Thursday
On Maundy Thursday, a very small but brave number of participants met up for a BYO activity in our wine tasting club. We ended up with two whites and two reds, and as usual they were served blind so we … Continue reading
Posted in AuZone, Bordeaux, Chenin Blanc, Loire, Nahe, Rhône, Riesling
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Goose dinner wines
On St. Martin’s Day, now some two weeks ago, a goose dinner is customary in some parts (especially the Germanic ones) of northwestern Europe. In Sweden this tradition is particularly strong in the southern parts of the country, in particular Scania/Skåne, since … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne, Chenin Blanc, Gewürztraminer, Grenache, Loire, Pinot Noir, Spain
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