Brunello 2012 Continues (Caprili, Sassetti, Talenti)
I can’t quite put my finger on it – I've been drinking lots of 2012 Brunelli lately, but something about tonight’s line-up of labels made me want to listen to The Smiths. Shuffle around quietly, look at the [...]
Saint-Julien 2005 (Branaire, Lagrange, Poyferré)
These are not the kind of wines I buy these days, but I have a bunch of them in the cellar so they’re going to [...]
DG WINE Does Veneto (Dal Forno, Quintarelli)
A lovely evening of reds from the Veneto region – one that I don’t play in very often. You don’t so much notice the elevated [...]
Stars of Savigny (Pavelot, Bize)
The quest for the Burgundy holy grail – delicious, serious, affordable – tends to send one southward from the heart of the Côte de Nuits. [...]
Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay ‘Clos du Chateau’
I am no Burgundy expert, but I know enough to know that the Domaine Lafarge Clos du Château des Ducs Volnay 1er Cru is one [...]
The Other Mastro(janni), 2010
Mastrojanni is among my favourites in Montalcino. I remember first encountering the 2010 Normale in a wine bar in Rome Fiumicino airport, just when it [...]
2008 Chablis ‘Valmur’ (Droin, Fèvre)
2008 is, for me, the reference Chablis vintage. It seems to me that its excellence was overlooked until several years later when it came to [...]
More Brunello 2012 (Fuligni, Lisini, Salicutti)
Continuing on through a fairly deep selection of 2012s of which I have come into possession, progressing roughly through the alphabet. I liked the first [...]
Interlude: A Reflection on Times Past and Present
The photo is a page from the 1988 edition of the wine list – or rather, wine book, which this quite literally is, hardcover, beautifully [...]