by Rupert Bates
Bibendum’s latest contributor is Rupert Bates, a property journalist by day and keen imbiber by night. In this post, he puts the spotlight on Burgundy with three recent tasting notes…
English couple Su and David Bishop drank in the sights of Burgundy in Eastern France; bought a house between Beaune and Meursault and never looked back. Both in the building trade, they then …
by Robert Giorgione, http://robertfoodwinetravel.blogspot.com
Why is it that over the years wines produced from Chardonnay have got a bit of a bad rep? Why is it that we consider more positively and ‘affectionately’ enjoying a bottle of white Burgundy, as opposed to a ‘New World’ Chardonnay? Perhaps you have not realised it yet, but when you are enjoying a bottle of Meursault or Puligny-Montrachet, you …
By David Bolomey, http://bordoverview.blogspot.com
Burgundy is expensive. Even simple Burgundy – AC Bourgogne – can still be quite expensive, at least when compared to other regional French appellations. And it is easy to be disappointed: there’s plenty of meagre and spineless stuff out there. So what do we have to look at when choosing a Burgundy? The answer is as simple as difficult. What we need to …
(Burgundy bottles lined up ready to go at RIBA on Tuesday)
It hasn’t been easy picking a wine today. In contrast to tasting just one wine last week, this week has been a riot of fine Burgundies and there were plenty of candidates to choose from. Personal Burgundy 2008 favourites …
It was back to RIBA on Tuesday Night for our Burgundy 2008 tasting. As usual the crowds poured in early and the place was buzzing well before the official 6pm opening time. We showed over 80 wines from 21 growers – most of whom were on hand to talk tasters through the wines and the vintage. Luckily for those of you who couldn’t make it, our intrepid reporter Gal was out about with the Flip …
This is the 117th and last Random Bottlings post of 2009. I’m off to Scotland and Northumbria until the New Year armed with a corkscrew and a bag packed with great wine. Who needs clothes when you can fit in another bottle of decent Burgundy or some aged Tawny Port?
It’s been quite a year and it’s hard to think back over 2009 without thinking of the economy. Over at Bibendum Times, there have been two …
By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
One of the huge benefits of living on the coast in a place like Aldeburgh (in fact, the main benefit) is having a fisherman like Dean Fryer on your doorstep selling that day’s catch. Normally, when he catches lobsters in his pots he boils them and sells them pink and ready to devour cold with, say, mayonnaise. If you catch him early …
(Wiffy and wobbly: just like the Bibendum team)
You are, as they say, what you eat. This is probably truer in Burgundy than anywhere else. The jambon persille has turned us slightly green and jellified around the edges, our cheeks wobble like the piggy versions braised for us chez Grivot and there is a faint whiff of over-ripe cheese everywhere we go.
Our current fromage du …
(Blues skies over Le Montrachet – a good way to start the day)
Today started where we last night left off: with widespread incredulity at Camilla’s prior career at the sharp end of the fast food industry (see below!). Finding ourselves with twenty minutes to kill before our first appointment, Ben suggested we head into Meursault for an Egg McMuffin and a cafe crème at …
Always looking to push the boundaries in the name of a good bottle of wine, I’m very excited to be involved in a ground-breaking tasting event at l’Anima Restaurant (pictured above) on Monday.
The are few people more knowledgeable about Italian wine, and certainly no sommeliers more switched on to social media, than l’Anima’s Gal Zohar. When he suggested the idea of people voting via Twitter and a blog …
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