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The ninth of 13 work-in-progress tasting articles. Domaine Pierre Labet (Beaune) Domaine Michel Lafarge (Volnay) Matthew writes A year that seemed to suit Domaine Lafarge, whose Volnays veer to...
Matthew Hayes
Friday 16 January 2026
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See Maison Leroy at 60 years for more about this extraordinary tasting of 1955 Maison Leroy burgundies held on the...
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This is the sort of article I hate writing. It seems quite wrong to me that a woman as strong...
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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the collections of tasting notes already published and those yet to...
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4 Nov update – I saw Jean-Marc Roulot yesterday who told me that apparently Hubert died at dinner in Alsace...
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This article is also published by the Financial Times. Roland Lavantureux runs a small domaine in Chablis, not just growing...
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Robert Chevillon is one of the most reliable names in Burgundy. The Chevillon table at any tasting is always surrounded...
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Québecois Thomas Bachelder made some pretty good wines at Lemelson in Oregon and was then lured back to Ontario to...
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Here in the western Languedoc, much of the talk is about hail, the hail that on Sunday night wiped out...
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In the wake of the third terrible hailstorm in Burgundy in three years, and the remorseless upward spiral of burgundy...
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11 Jul - See also Haisma on hail, and Burgundy vintages. 29 Jun – Yohan Castaing sends this very worrying...
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Terroirs Originels, the group of independent Beaujolais vignerons whose current releases I reviewed in Beaujolais 2013 looking promising, have just...
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27 June 2014: In response to my final comment below, about the Bachelet 2009s, Bill Nanson tells me that the...
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