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Rose Murray Brown’s Current Favourite Reds
The Scotsman Rose Murray Brown puts together a case of her current favourite reds including: BU17561 Vougeot Premier Cru Cras 2000, Domaine de la Vougeraie (£45 The Wine Society...
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Present Perfect ~ a wine on form
There are times when you taste a wine or a cheese and it is right at the top of its game and it is overwhelmingly delicious. Last week I had a bottle of Meursault Meix sous le Château, Jean-Philippe...
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Nicolas Potel: Burgundian Winemaker and Vigneron
A member asked for an update on Nicolas Potel. Nicolas has achieved a lot in a very short time, so I thought I would summarise his career chronologically. 1969-1997 Early years and Domaine de la...
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Jancis’s wine of the week
Jancis Robinson’s wine of the week was St-Véran En Crêches 2008, Domaine Jacques & Natalie Saumaize One long-standing over-performing Mâconnais name is Saumaize, a domaine split in the 1990s...
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2010 White burgundy. Let battle commence
Marcel Orford-Williams gets the sample bottles lined up for the annual blending of The Society's White Burgundy in Mâcon
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The Society through gangsters’ eyes
The Wine Gang consists of five of the UK’s most respected wine critics, namely (from left to right below): Tom Cannavan, Jane Parkinson (formerly of this parish!), Anthony Rose, Joanna Simon and...
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Second Edition of “How To Buy Burgundy” Now on the Web
Burgundy, especially red Burgundy, is difficult to understand. I have substantially revised this guide, increasing it to 8000 words, and have tried to answer many of the questions we get. Click here...
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The Wines of Burgundy at Le Clos des Capucins, Montreuil
This was the first time that we’d been back to Le Clos des Capucins since husband and wife team Guillaume and Isabelle Duvivier had taken it on so we were quite intrigued to see what it would be like....
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Burgundy and Woodcock
It's no coincidence that the label for The Society's Red Burgundy features a snipe...The French bécasse sounds so much richer and more evocative of something special. It reminds me of the delightful...
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The Perils of Tasting from Barrel in Burgundy: The Malolactic Fermentation
One of the most challenging and interesting privileges of the buying job is to go out to Burgundy and taste a vintage from barrel in October, buy the wines and make an assessment of the vintage....
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High hopes, low barometer?
Ewan Murray wasn’t the only Society taster putting his palate through its paces recently. Last week others were judging too. Here’s what happened on one of those days. Tim Sykes Some of the wine...
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Gold Blend: Blending The Society’s White Burgundy
Last week I accompanied Society ‘Master Blender’ Marcel Orford-Williams on a whistle-stop trip to Mâcon in southern Burgundy. The primary purpose of the visit was to put together the assemblage, or...
View ArticleVideo of Recent Hail in Burgundy
We don’t see much hail in Stevenage so I often struggle to imagine how isolated storms can wreak such havoc in vineyards. We reported in June how Vouvray had been hit followed by similar news from...
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The Home Of Glorious Chardonnay
In the first part of his tour of Burgundy head of copy Paul Trelford is cooled by heady Meursault and then heads for the glories of the north in Chablis What to do in Beaune when the mercury is pushing...
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Burgundy: From The Destruction To The Sublime
Head of copy Paul Trelford continues his tour of Burgundy. It starts with a bump but ends in euphoria Click here to read the first part. A YEAR’S WORK LOST IN MINUTES Burgundy’s year had been much like...
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The Beautiful South: Pouilly-Fuissé
In his final chapter Paul Trelford heads to the south of Burgundy to sample some of the region’s best-value whites, and ends with some of its finest. Click to read the first and second parts Toby...
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2013 Harvest? We’re Still Waiting!
25 years or so ago, this was normal: people harvested in October. And even then, most grapes were picked at a much earlier stage in their ripeness. Fashions have changed, tastes have evolved and, by...
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Cellar Surprises: Burgundy In South Africa
This Wine Society bottling of 1966 Savigny Marconnets was proffered by friend and supplier Richard Kelley (whom some members may know better under his moninker of ‘Rick The Cape Crusader’, used for...
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Burgundian Stonework: Murgers, Clos and Cabottes
These are lovely vineyards in Santenay. Murgers are walls made up of piled up stones cleared from rocky vineyards before they could be planted. Clos are walled vineyards. One here even has steps built...
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Burgundian Cellars: Tollot-Beaut
Tollot-Beaut have very attractive cellars, although quite recent. Still, the black alcohol-loving fungus has colonised the pillars and wine bins. We will be selling their lovely 2012s in our opening...
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