An Introduction to Tasting Notes
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Tasting Reports
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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.
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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
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Read MoreThe wizards of Meursault 2: Domaine Arnaud Ente
Jean-François Coche-Dury, Dominique Lafon, Jean-Marc Roulot – perhaps the three great names in Meursault over the last thirty years, though there are plenty more who could give them a run for their money. I am not at all unhappy with my purchases from François Jobard during this period! In the... -
Read MoreTen year on tasting: 2007 vintage
Every year growers gather at my neighbour’s in Burgundy in June and bring with them bottles or magnums (M) of the 10 year old and, in a few cases, the 20 year old, vintage. So this year we had sixteen 1997s and around 100 2007s to taste. 2007 Red Wines... -
Read MoreGevrey-Chambertin, Clos St Jacques
A group of Burgundy enthusiasts convened at 67 Pall Mall in February 2016 to taste a wide range of wines from the wonderful Clos St Jacques vineyard. This was not an attempt to construct a formal assessment to contrast the merits of the five current owners of the Clos. Instead... -
Read MoreDomaine Lamarche: La Grande Rue
La Grande Rue consists of a narrow strip of vineyard, never more than 50 metres wide, starting above the houses of the village and finishing just higher up the slope than neighbouring La Romanée, the soil being shallower and poorer than at the lower end. The first mention of this... -
Read MoreJoseph Drouhin: Le Musigny
The Drouhin holding of Musigny covers 0.67ha at the northern end of the Grand Cru. It is mostly formed by one single block purchased in 1961, though Maison Drouhin used to get grapes from the previous owner before this date. On the viticultural side, it should be noted that the... -
Read MoreMature Volnay
The tasting, held on 13th October 2017, accompanied by an excellent dinner at Amuse Bouche restaurant in Hong Kong, was designed to compare three classical Volnay producers across various more or less mature vintages, notably the fascinating trio of 1991-1990-1989. The wines were not tasted blind. -
Read MoreDomaine Jean Grivot: Richebourg
I had the great pleasure of attending a vertical tasting of Etienne Grivot’s Richebourg in November 2015. Most of the samples had been assembled over the years by collector Richard Orders, with gaps being supplemented from the domaine. Tasting such wines should always be a pleasure, but what made this... -
Read MoreDomaine Méo-Camuzet: Richebourg
The domaine, a leading light of Vosne-Romanée, takes its name from two connected families. Etienne Camuzet was deputé for the Côte d’Or from 1902 to 1932. He purchased some significant vineyard holdings as well as the Château de Clos de Vougeot, which he later gave to the Confrérie des Chevaliers... -
Read MoreDomaine Cathiard Dinner
A dinner at the excellent Guo Fu Lou Restaurant, Wan Chai, Hong Kong on 26th January 2018. Two of the three wines from 2000 were affected by cork taint, unfortunately not a unique experience with Cathiard wines from this vintage. Otherwise Sylvain Cathiard’s gorgeously hedonistic style showed to very good...
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