Dry

Having been disappointed by so many Meursaults to date, this one from a magnum was a real pleasure, and served my cousins’ 27th December …

An easy-drinking, pretty fine Champagne, although I would have expected more fruit on the nose. Salmon-pink, with an orange tinge. Fine, persistent bead. Moderately …

Kicked-off Christmas in style with this. It was a pleasure to see that this was one of the 8-10 1998 Champagnes that Tom Stevenson …

One of the first 1996 Champagnes I’d drunk, and looked very young, compared with the 1995 Delamotte, for example. A tasting of Bollinger RD …

First of a random case of Champagne. Tom Stevenson rates these guys fairly highly, and I can see why with this ’95 Blanc de …

Bought a half-case of this on the strength of the 2005, and it pretty-much delivers. The one note is that it probably would be …

So after the failure of the Chablis Bougros, I swiftly went to this, that I’d picked up in Venice. And initially I thought ‘uh-oh’… …

Arse, arse, arse, arse. Getting this label off proved possible, only for it to disintegrate on touch. That more-or-less topped-off an end-to-end bad news …

After putting this into the 2nd Optimor case, I then tasted it at the POTG annual tasting and got nervous, because it was very …

Picked up by Sven from Planet of the Grapes, to celebrate his wedding with the rest of the office, and a very pleasant find. …