An Introduction to Tasting Notes
Find out more about the combination scales used alongside each other to help distinguish a truly successful wine.
Search here, by scrolling through the drop-down menus below, for Tasting Reports by vintage, producer, village or outside burgundy:
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.
Find out more about the combination scales used alongside each other to help distinguish a truly successful wine.
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.
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.
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.
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