By Will Lowe, http://www.willlowe.com/
Our third and final day in Burgundy began in quite possibly the most picturesque little town known to mankind: Meursault. As the sun rose on the town hall, this sleepy village yawned into action, the light streaming across the vineyards in on the horizon.
A short, brisk walk through the village took us to the door of Domaine Latour-Giraud, where we were …
By Will Lowe, http://www.willlowe.com/
The third chapter of our trip to Burgundy took us about an hour and a half south on the A6, to the southern part of the Côte-d’Or: the Côte de Beaune.
Land here is knee-tremblingly expensive. I’m told that 1/24th of a hectare (about 400 square metres, or 20m x 20m) recently exchanged hands for 900,000 Euros. It …
By Rob Pickard
With the 2011 harvest in Europe coming to a close, our friends from the Cote d’Or, Domaine Roux Pere et Fils, sent us some fantastic photos from this year’s fun and games in the vineyards. From St Aubin to Chambolle-Musigny via Vougeot, check out their photo diary from the 2011 …
By Tara Devon O’Leary, http://winepassionista.com/
Burgundy produces wines that are some of the world’s most recognized, respected and revered. However they are also quite complicated and confusing for many wine lovers. This ‘Intro to Burgundy’ series will look beneath the labels and the puzzling wine terms to help every day wine lovers (like me!) to understand all we need to know about this …
By Erica Fowler
Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting
They say that Pinot Noir is the heartbreak grape, and I would agree with that. No other wine seems to bring out the same levels of passion, debate and controversy than this famously fickle grape variety. When it’s good, boy is it good – producing some of the finest wines in …
It’s the week before Christmas and B Times is celebrating by asking four social media-savvy foodies and winos to tell us their gastronomic and vinous highlights of 2010. We’ve asked a chef, a sommelier, a food blogger, a wine blogger and our very own epicure-in-chief Willie Lebus to write posts for us, and we will publish one every day this week. To kick things off here is one of our favourite wine bloggers, Juel Mahoney …
Montrachet is perhaps the world’s most famous vineyard, producing tiny quantities of mouth-watering Chardonnay to be sold at eye-watering prices. The vineyard itself is a rather unassuming plot of rocks and earth to look at it but the qualities this terroir bestows on the grapes its produces are legendary.
by Gareth Groves
The threat of a strike has been averted. After negotiations lasting well into the night over a dozen escargots, half a poulet de Bresse, the world’s greatest cheese board and a bottle of Le Montrachet Roux Pere et Fils 2008, I agreed to go back to work on Thursday morning if Frau Bowler would agree to …
by Gareth Groves
We had touched down two hours earlier. In that time we had managed to get into the wrong hire car, drive to the wrong hotel and tried desperately to find a restaurant that had shut many hours earlier. Timmy (our resident MW) was hungry and sweary. So off we went in a mad dash to find the last eatery still …
Piuze is an outsider in Burgundy. A French-Canadian Montreal wine bar owner turned micro-negociant. In a recent article Jancis Robinson called Patrick “a truly thrilling new producer of hand-crafted Chablis.” High praise for someone currently vinifying on his third solo vintage…
