ALBERT BICHOT Class and Tasting
Featuring assistant technical director Matthieu Mangenot On Monday, June 17 at 7pm, please join me (Spec’s fine wine buyer Bear Dalton) in welcoming Albert Bichot assistant…
POUSSE d’OR’s 2014 Burgundies
Every fine wine is a product of person and place. For the wines of Pousse d’Or, that person is Patrick Landanger; proprietor, vigneron, innovator. Landanger had…
La CHABLISIENNE, Chablis La Pierrelee, 2014
There are co-ops and then there are co-ops. While I’ve had a lot of bad wine made at co-ops all over the world, there are several…
Taste Domaine de la POUSSE d’OR 2014
Domaine de la Pousse d’Or has long been among my favorites of Burgundy. I first tasted two of the Volnays in the early 1980s and got to know the range…
A Dozen Rosés = A Bubbly Bouquet
Please find here a bouquet of a dozen carefully selected Rosés, any of which will add a thrillingly pink sparkle to your Valentine’s Day. MERCAT Brut…
The Friday Fizz: FRANÇOIS LABET Rosé Cremant de Bourgogne, NV
The Person: François Labet, owner of the Ch. de la Tour in Clos Vougeot in the Cote d’Or in Burgundy The Place: The vineyards of Burgundy…
Burgundy Profile: Domaine de la POUSSE d’OR
The Person: Patrick Landanger; proprietor, vigneron, innovator. Landanger had almost no experience with the wine business when he bough the estate in 1997 just after longtime…
The Big Deal: MICHEL GROS Nuits St. Georges, 2010
The Deal: $49.99 cash (was $64.99 cash) good 11/4/14 thru 11/15/14. The Person: Michel Gros (owner, vigneron, winemaker) The Place: The village slope on the north…
Winery Profile: DOMAINE ROBLET MONNOT
ROBLET MONNOT is the domaine of Pascal Roblet who is the 14th generation of his family to earn his living as a vigneron (grape grower) in…
