Tasting Reports

An Introduction to Tasting Reports

Find out more about how reports are separated into En primeur barrel tastings, the Burgfest tastings, 10 year on & 20 year on tastings, producer verticals and vineyard focus.

JMIB Tasting Reports

The core of this website is the vast and growing library of Jasper Morris’s ‘Tasting Reports’. Each has a theme – a vintage, a vineyard, a producer, from outside Burgundy and a specific writer. New ‘Tasting Reports’ are published regularly: subscribers are notified. The ‘Tasting Reports’ contribute a steady flow of new tasting notes to the Wine Database. For more, see “An introduction to Tasting Reports”.

All wines are given both a point score and a star rating: A full explanation can be found by clicking on “An Introduction to Tasting Notes” below.

Vintage Overview Reports (1990-2022)

To accompany my new book: Inside Burgundy – The Second Edition, vintage overview reports from 1990 to 2022 are free for all to read. Click here or use the right hand side “Vintage” drop down menu to navigate through the vintages overviews.

Recent Reports

2013 Vintage Overview
A very tricky vintage with an October harvest for the reds, some of which will be meagre – but there are also some wines with the potential to...
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2012 Vintage Overview
Something of a forgotten vintage, not written off as one of the failures, but a little overlooked as collectors concentrate on the big guns.
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2011 Vintage Overview
This was the third harvest of the new century to begin in August – compared to only one per century in the previous few hundred years.
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2010 Vintage Overview
The weather The winter was cold, exceptionally cold, with temperatures dropping below -20°Cshortly before Christmas.
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2009 Vintage Overview
The hype which greeted the 2009 vintage in Bordeaux carried over to a lesser extent to Burgundy.
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2008 Vintage Overview
I nicknamed 2008 as the second Sarkozy summer (see 2007): it was another cool and frequently damp season during which the ground never warmed up...
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2007 Vintage Overview
I overheard a Frenchman saying to his friend at the Gare du Lyon in August 2007: ‘Do you know, we haven’t had a single day of sunshine since we...
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2006 Vintage Overview
It is tough to follow on from a ‘vintage of the century’ such as 2005.
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2005 Vintage Overview
For years I used to discuss the potential of a good new red- burgundy vintage with Dominique Lafon, and we would say ‘yes, that’s good, but not...
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