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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
After extensive tasting and talking to producers up and down Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, Matthew surveys the vintage. Above, the tellingly empty cellars at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Vosne-Romanée. To...
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
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Here, in some haste but in obedient response to this request on the forum, are the notes I managed to...
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These notes were taken in March 2008 with Louis-Michel Liger-Belair at his UK importers Justerini & Brooks. For some background...
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British wine lovers who especially love burgundy may be interested in a relatively new outfit, Hand Picked Burgundy, set up...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also the tasting notes in...
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Below are my notes taken at an extraordinary two-day tasting of the Wine Society’s stocks of the grander wines of...
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Most of us know how to visit a winery, don’t we? You drive up, leave the car in the visitors’...
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I tasted these wines at the beginning of my visit to the Domaine in mid December. This was at the...
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Yet more 2005 burgundy, I'm afraid, but it won't come round again, and already the allocations of...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my survey of 2005 burgundies...
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People like Dominique Lafon, Christophe Roumier and Jean-Marie Fourrier are thoroughly normal, 21 st century young(ish) men. They travel the...
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I found during my days tasting in Burgundy last week that my working days were relatively short. My first tasting...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. There are few uncontroversial statements in...
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