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NEW TASTING REPORT

‘Domaine Hubert Lamy

🚨NEW TASTING REPORT🚨

‘Domaine Hubert Lamy 2022’

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Olivier Lamy prefers not to show his wines until they are in bottle and ready to be offered for sale. I fully understand the reasoning, though it does mean turning the brain out of 2023 mode into the previous vintage during my November tastings. I would hate to miss this tasting though, given the utterly stunning quality of the wines. I do my best not to promote the concept of cult producers, but this particular bird has long flown.

Olivier’s take on the growing season is very positive. No frost, despite one very cold patch, and no hail. It was a very luminous summer, with 25% more sun and 20% drier than the average, but there was three times the usual rainfall in June which kept the reserves going. A little rain just before the harvest helped the final ripening. Picking began on 25th August, the same date as 2015 and 2017, with degrees around 13 to 13.5%, occasionally 14% in red, and good yields, 40 hl/ha in red, 30 to 50 in white. Olivier finds his 2022 wines to be the freshest of the early harvest years, and I would certainly agree.

Read the full tasting report via the link in my bio.

Signing, rather than singing for my supper in Hong

Signing, rather than singing for my supper in Hong Kong!

The Dynasty Club is an institution in Hong Kong, for both local and mainland Chinese business leaders. It was a superbly organised evening of fine food paired with wines from the Hill of Corton (both colours) and Clos de Vougeot. Many thanks to Watson's Wine @watsons.wine for supplying the bottles.

#dynastyclubhk
#DynastyMemories

Night two at Melbourne’s Smith Street Bistrot fo

Night two at Melbourne’s Smith Street Bistrot for the 67 Pall Mall Melbourne team with a Morey St-Denis masterclass. Six fine wines but the two 2016s, Dujac and Perrot Minot stood out. Very elegant Raphet 2021 contrasted nicely with robust Hubert Lignier 2020 at village level.

Kicking off a memorable Coche Dury tasting for 67

Kicking off a memorable Coche Dury tasting for 67 Pall Mall in Melbourne, in advance of the latest @67pall_mall club opening here later this year.
Well, Coche Dury and friend, I should say (see slide 2). Never miss a chance to taste Giaconda!
In the last image, see all six wines raring to go at the tasting. My eventual favourite? Meursault Chevalières 2019.

A private dinner in Australia: 1. A gre

🇦🇺 A private dinner in Australia:

1. A great start. Cristal 2008 looks very young, Egly Ouriet 2008 gorgeously expansive.
2. Grand old Australian whites. The star was the 1976 Rothbury Estate Hunter Valley Semillon.
3. Two grands crus from Burgundy were challenged hard by a 2010 village Meursault from Arnaud Ente and Giaconda 2004.
4. The older Australian reds were very interesting. The faded elegant label on the left, Woodleys Coonawarra Cabernet 1954 was indeed faded as a wine but remained strikingly elegant. The Michael Hermitage from Wynns had succumbed to bacteria, the Mildara 1963, dubbed Peppermint Patty, was too mentholated for me, but I was most impressed by the seeming youth and immense concentration of the Lindeman’s Hunter River Burgundy (aka Shiraz) from 1965.
5. And to end the meal, a most astonishing Old Liqueur Muscat of exemplary class and precision.

#finewine #burgundy #australianwine #cristal #EglyOuriet

A series of wonderful bottles in Australia (and wh

A series of wonderful bottles in Australia (and when in the Southern Hemisphere... pavlova)

First, a delicious bottle of mature @balgownieestate had at Stokehouse, with Randall Pollard. Second, Sunday lunch at @paradigmhill was a beautiful moment. Then when staying with my niece, we enjoyed this from @oakridgewines courtesy of her brother-in-law Joseph. It was a pleasure to taste a bottle of @place_of_changing_winds at the winery.

Lastly, we have a battle of the pavlovas. Thank you Ruth for this circular beauty, while Aurelia took the high rise option (hard to serve but a joy to eat!)

#australianpinotnoir #australianwines #australianchardonnay #pinotnoir #chardonnay