CHANSON, Beaune   I remember when Chanson was a fairly lacklustre Burgundy negociant making particularly lightweight wines but since Bollinger took over the company there...

You may remember my enthusiasm for the Monmouth wine merchant Irma Fingal Rock. See Irma Fingal-Rock – a worthwhile wine merchant and A useful new Meursault producer ....

  So what exactly was it that made the 2005 burgundies I wrote about last week quite so desirable? A strong clue comes from what Bertrand Maume of Domaine Maume in Gevrey-Chambertin had...

See well over 1,300 tasting notes on this exceptional vintage and my overview of what made the wines taste the way they do. “I’ve been 25 years in the wine trade and I’ve...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at the...

See 2005 Burgundy - a sizzling market  and my overview of what made the wines taste the way they do. Our collection of well over 1,300 tasting notes on the 2005 burgundies, red and...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at the...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at the...

  Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at the...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at the...

Julia Harding MW and I have tasted a total approaching 1,500 different samples of 2005 burgundy – mainly in London last week but I also spent a week in Burgundy in December tasting at...

Find this wine Yet more 2005 burgundy, I'm afraid, but it won't come round again, and already the allocations of the top wines are disappearing fast....

  Demand for 2005 burgundy (see our 1,300 tasting notes ) from the UK merchants who have already made offers has been phenomenal (see A sizzling market ) and practically all their...

The main talking point of yesterday’s big tasting at Justerini & Brooks was the state of the samples. Hew Blair of J&B confesses to worrying over Christmas and New Year (he is a...