An Introduction to Tasting Notes
Find out more about the combination scales used alongside each other to help distinguish a truly successful wine.
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 (see below). 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”.
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.
Recent Reports
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Read MoreJasper on Zoom: Jasper’s Top 6 Côte Chalonnaise Vignerons
Question: Where to go in Burgundy for fine quality at fair prices? Answer: to the very best producers of the Côte Chalonnaise. I have chosen... -
Read MoreMarsannay
Between the return of the vignerons from their summer holidays and the start of the vintage, I visited several domaines in Marsannay and Fixin to... -
Read MoreFixin
Between the return of the vignerons from their summer holidays and the start of the vintage, I visited several domaines in Marsannay and Fixin to... -
Read MoreJasper on Zoom: Chambolle-Musigny Combe d’Orveau
This unusual vineyard in Chambolle-Musigny should not be overlooked. It is the only lieu-dit in all of Burgundy which has four classifications from generic to grand cru... -
Read MoreAuxey-Duresses
Now is the time to start investigating what might have been considered as backwater villages, but where global warming is bringing the ability to ripen... -
Read MoreSt-Romain
Once the strictest part of Le confinement (lockdown) was relaxed, I was able to get out for lengthy walks in the vineyard and visits to... -
Read MorePierre Millemann
You could argue that Pierre Millemann covers all the bases. He is part Alsatian (father), part Breton (mother), but was largely brought up in Anjou.... -
Read MoreJasper on Zoom: 2010 Red Horizontal
2010 has proven to be an unsuspected star for the red wines of Burgundy. It did not feel like a great vintage at the time,... -
Read MoreTravels in the Couchois
It never ceases to fascinate me, but however well one may think one knows Burgundy, there are always new discoveries to be made in unexpected...
