I'm very grateful to Flint Wines for organising a major horizontal tasting of representative 2008 red burgundies last week. The wines were picked so late and evolved so slowly in the cellar that...

See Burgundy 2008 - a guide for links to 1,400 reviews of 2008 burgundies and all our other coverage of this very varies vintage.  Some of the 2008 reds I tasted at top domaines in...

24 Jan - Have now added some brief notes about individual producers and their recent news, or what they said about the 2008 vintage. 20 Jan -  I do intend to add some...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide to find the other tasting notes and to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has been tasted...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide   to find the other tasting notes and  to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide to find the other tasting notes and to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has been tasted more...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide   to find the other tasting notes and  to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has been...

We all have emails that mysteriously go missing. Many of them are unimportant. But I will forever regret one that was sent but never arrived in my Inbox from Aubert de Villaine of the world’s...

Today is the only day in the current fortnight when there is no Burgundy 2008 tasting in London. The merchants perhaps assume their customers are too busy getting themselves and their famliies off...

All will be sensibly reported next week but I can divulge the names of some of the producers whose wines have so far stood out for me. I'm sure there are many more names that will emerge as...

Post script - J&B have very kindly suggested that I taste some leftover samples of the Bruno Clair wines that I missed on Monday when I will be chez eux tasting Comte Liger-Belair...

From £99 a dozen in bond Find this wine This week Julia and I are totally immersed in tasting 2008 burgundies on the London circuit, at a total of 26 primeurs tastings in a...

From $25.99 and £110 a dozen in bond Find Colin-Morey wines I'm just back from a week tasting the sort of 2008 burgundies that are rarely shown in the en primeur burgundy...

Alex Gambal, American wine producer in Burgundy, provides this fascinating account. See those revealing numbers in his section on September, along with his suggested explanation for why the...

Talking to people who live in and around Bordeaux recently, I have been assailed with tales of woe, of another summer that has been disappointingly cool and damp, with widespread mildew and,...