An Introduction to Tasting Notes
Find out more about the combination scales used alongside each other to help distinguish a truly successful wine.
Tasting Reports
Reports from inside and outside Burgundy
Search Inside Burgundy
JMIB tasting reports
The core activity of our Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy website is the provision of Tasting Reports. Each one of these provides an interesting narrative in its own right, while also populating the database which is growing all the time, and from which at any time you can check up on the current rating of any wine of interest. The Tasting Reports themselves come in various guises and this is fully explained below in “An introduction to Tasting Reports”.
JMIB Tasting Notes
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.
-
Read More
-
Read MoreAn 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.
Recent Reports
-
Read More2017: The Vintage Report (Côte de Nuits)
This report on the 2017 vintage as produced by the vignerons of the Côte de Nuits covers 65 producers and 800 different wines, a really thorough overview of the vintage in the Côte de Nuits. The producers are presented village by village. For detailed information on the growing season and... -
Read More2017: The Vintage Report (Côte de Beaune)
This report on the 2017 vintage as produced by the vignerons of the Côte de Beaune covers over 70 producers and nearly 1200 different wines, a really thorough overview of the vintage in the Côte de Beaune. The producers are presented village by village. For detailed information on the growing... -
Read More2017: The Vintage Report (Chablis)
Chablis in 2017 Whereas the Côte d’Or more or less escaped the frost in 2017, more northerly Chablis suffered colder temperatures in April and noticeably more damage. The worst hit sectors were the northern part of Chablis, around Lignorelles and Maligny, and then the top vineyards, premier and grand cru,... -
Read MoreRed Burgfest: The 2015 vintage
Talking Points Burgfest Tasting Protocol We tasted, blind, 260 red wines from the 2015 vintage in September 2018 at the Hameau de Barboron. The wines were presented in small flights of up to 8 wines, grouped by village or indeed vineyard. The bottles are decanted into neutral carafes prior to... -
Read MoreWhite Burgfest: The 2015 vintage
Talking Points Burgfest Tasting Protocol We tasted, blind, 234 white wines from the 2015 vintage in May 2018 at the Hameau de Barboron. The wines were presented in small flights of up to 8 wines, grouped by village or indeed vineyard. The bottles are decanted into neutral carafes prior... -
Read More2008: Ten Years On
I was a little less enthusiastic at the outset about this vintage though it found a number of supporters. The colours were typically quite pronounced from the word go and though there was often intense fruit at the front and powerful acidity behind, there was too often a hole in... -
Read More2016: The Vintage Report (Côte d’Or)
My aim is to give a relatively comprehensive guide to the 2016 vintage in Burgundy. I have visited around 100 producers and completed notes on around 1350 wines. In future years I hope to add in further producers, a mix of classic names who I was not able to visit... -
Read More1998: Twenty Years On
On the occasion of the annual 10 Year On tasting for the 2008 vintage, a number of generous and brave vignerons also supplied samples from 1998. This was a particularly difficult vintage for the white wines, many of which were frosted at Easter, suffered from oidium in the spring and... -
Read More2016: The Vintage Report (Chablis)
Two visits to Chablis earlier this year were principally aimed at tasting the 2017s, which will appear in my end of year vintage report. Many producers were keen to show their 2016 vintage as well or instead, if the 2017s were not yet ready to taste. A few 2015s and...
Register with JMIB to learn more about Burgundy and its wine...
- Receive details by email of the latest news to come from inside and outside Burgundy
- Interact with other JMIB members by commenting on articles
- Feel something is missing? You will be able to give feedback on the JMIB website
- Manage your account so you are always kept up to date from JMIB
- Registration is FREE and you can cancel your JMIB account whenever you wish.