Tasting Reports

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 (see below). 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.

Vintage Overview Reports (1990-2022)

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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  1985 Burgundy Grand Crus: An Astonishing Horizontal Tasting

  Every so often something rather special comes along by way of a fine wine tasting. I am indebted to Richard... Read more
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  Australian Future Legends – Pinot Noir

  by Tom Kline The story of Pinot Noir’s evolution in Australia has been one of discovery, trial, error, travel and... Read more
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  Red Burgfest: The 2020 Vintage

  It seemed strange to be tasting the 2020 vintage, which was at the time the hottest and just about the... Read more
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  ‘2023 Kumeu River Chardonnays’ by Jane Skilton MW

  When Michael Brajkovich MW took up the winemaking reins at his family’s Kumeu River Winery in 1992, I’m sure few... Read more
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  White Burgfest 2020

  In late May our Burgfest group met once again at the Hameau de Barboron to taste the whites from 2020.... Read more
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  Hunter Valley – Blind Chardonnay Tasting by Tom Kline

  “The birthplace of Australian wine” is a term so often touted by the Hunter Valley that it’s become platitudinous. And... Read more