... and clean.  We will definitely be back again. The wine for the night was French. A wonderful Alsatian...

Barton & Guestier Macon-Villages Chardonnay, France, 2003 As we continue our exploration of wines around the world, we're often overwhelmed when it comes to choosing affordable French wines. That's why it's worth noting when we stumble across a decent one. While some of the French Chardonnays we've tried have had strong mineral tastes, this wine was refreshing with hints of citrus...

Even with the screw cap, I really wanted to like this bottle of Chardonnay 2005 from Laroche. Even with the fact that I'm not much of a Chardonnay drinker, I figured, hey, it's French. They know their wine. It must... Continue...

Nicey, nice……nervy, matchsticky white Burgundy …..one of the champions of ‘biodynamie’ Anne-Claude Leflaive began trials in biodynamics in 1988 after a meeting with soil guru Claude Bourguignon and gradually put the practises into place over a number of years(she practised on the leiux dit “Les Houlieres” first). The wines since ...

Onion skin in colour with a salmon pink tinge and a very fine bead. The nose is super concentrated and rich with glazed fruits, citrus, cherries and floral hints. As it sits in the glass it develops more smoky characters and a hint of cocoa. Very precise, but super-rich on ...

Ahhhhh….Burgundy. I was reading Clive Coates book on Burgundy before drinking this at a dinner and saw he gave this wine 20/20 and immediately started drooling like a Bull Mastiff in a butchers shop. The Rousseau family acquired their holdings in Chambertin in 1920 and at present that equates to ...

Saint Joseph bashes into the side of Chateau Grillet and then zooms off South for sixty kilometres…..there is a fair bit of variation in both the style and quality in the wine produced in Saint-Joseph but it is probably the appellation in the Rhone, that has the most potential in ...

When you have your first taste of a grower Champagne like Egly-Ouriet it is a revelation, such is the complexity and freshness. Natural ferments, wild yeast, extended time ‘sur lie’, zero or very low dosage (this particular wine has 4 to 5 grams per litre), no fining or filtration…these are ...

You’ll find just under 370 ha of vines in Chassagne-Montrachet, of which around 158 ha are Premier Cu(112 of which are white wine) and ‘En Remilly’, at 1.56 ha is one of the smaller 1ers and can be somewhat overshadowed by the rockstar premier crus such as Les Morgeots and ...

I like Volnay’s….my favorite reds from the Côte de Beaune come from this appellation….they are wines of great finesse.It is rare to find an appellation where the premier crus out-gun the village wines in terms of land size, but this is the case in Volnay.There are no Grand crus but ...