Recent content by David Lloyd

Hi Josh, I recall seeing one or 2 with brett a few years back but the two JC Boisset wines I have tried in recent years have been clean and bright. I was most impressed. The winemaker is young and very handsome and does not like brett or wines suffering from cork issues. We met him in 2008 which...

Friend Lindsay McCall was quite excited about going to IPNC and asked us around to dinner to discuss. Obviously we had to do a few wines blind. The first was a Domaine Ramonet 2005 Chassagne Montrachet Les Ruchottes. Very subtle nose, that was a bit of tease. Is it there? Is it closed? Was that...

Nigel, I have been a bit busy but just saw your post above. The Burgs were from 2 makers, 5 different wines from one maker, and we opened an average of 18 bottles of each wine to get the 15 we needed. All were 2007 vintage The second producer provided 2 sets, one set were one appellation and...

Oh I haven't seen either of those producers. Any more info on where they are please? 1996 must have been one of the earliest people to do fut de chene. I wonder if it was the usual D&J oak.

At 800 case total production export is not a high priority. Learning about Pinot and sharing the knowledge is. Wendy has decided that since we had already booked and paid for flights and house rentals for our holiday in France at the end of August that $6000 we were likely to spend for a quick...

Nigel you sound like an old bloke. Me too. I wonder about the reports of pox etc in the modern age. Bloggers, twitter etc plus email enable people to compare notes across the planet. So I guess one point to ponder is whether the old wines were indeed that age worthy? Of one thing I am certain...

Nigel you raise too many points to deal with simply. I am not so sure about the event horizon as you. The Australian walking/living encyclopaedia, James Halliday believes changes in TCA issues relates to use of herbicide around cork trees. As for natural product and changes in elasticity I am...

Scott, you have an interesting set of points on Cab and terroir that probably are best dealt with as a new thread IMHO.

My horror was indeed because I had to endure a Bdx. I essentially only enjoy PN, Chard, Gamay and Zin with a little affection for Nebiollo. But Cab and Bdx blends give me little enjoyment so I don't partake. The other wines were all from 2006 and the Fontaine Gagnard was a Chard. My experience...

Yes, but nobody is commenting re my hypothesis/experience that US wine has much less cork issue/problems than French??

Anyone attending the 25th anniversary of IPNC in July. I received an invite to be a guest winery and since we don't export it actually works out quite expensive. However, it is the 25th and we have many great friends in Oregon and it's all about celebrating Pinot as it sends us a message about...

The key point is Florida Jim reporting one bottle of a batch from 2006 showing premox. IMHO this directly assigns the cause of the premox in that bottle to the closure. We had a great night with friends last night which included wines from Bernard Moreau (Morgeot), Fontaine Gagnard (Morgeot)...

I think I agree Mark. We actually get this wine downunder! All this Beaujolais talk causes a yearning for me to visit again. Unfortunately the management wants some variety in our travels. Maybe 2012.

The only US restaurants I and most other aussies have heard of is French Laundry so Daniel Boulud means little to us. But it looks like it will be handy for when we get back to the US. Have you heard of Vue de Monde or Sepia or Quay or Tetsuyas as some of the better Aussie eateries? There are...

Thanks Yule, I had been to that site before and was left puzzled but this time I picked on some blokes name as the host and read about him, Daniel ? who appears to organise quite a jeebuz. Now I get it.