Recent content by Tim York

One of my best memories of a Pinot Gris was also from Germany, from the Keller estate in Rheinhessen. If my memory is correct, it was not unlike yours from Baden. It was really dry, unlike most from Alsace, and had a certain richness as well as freshness, unlike most from Italy.

That article is much more about Chenin worldwide than about Vouvray. In my experience, I find little in common between the wines made from chenin in the New World and the wines of good growers of the same grape in the Loire valley from Touraine (Vouvray/Montlouis/Jasnières) or from Anjou...

I have access to both the RVF and Bettane/Desseauve websites in French, because I subscribe to the former magazine and buy the latter guide. Michel Bettane writes very well (he is "professeur agrégé de lettres classiques") but I wouldn't call his contributions literary; they are firmly about...

Thanks for the mouth-watering TNs. I'm envious. Very interesting about the Foreau 08 demi-sec being more forward than the Huet. I wonder if it will go into a belated closed period. It leaves me in a quandary about when to open my bottles but one about now looks rewarding. BTW, if the estate's...

Thanks, Don, for that fascinating post.

Good reply but a touch too defensive in tone against those inverted snobs.

Whenever a wine article in the UK general press is the subject of public comment, a large part of such comments are attacks on the perceived snobbery surrounding wine. This Guardian article has attracted quite a lot of this bigoted anti-snobbery bile. For some reason wine seems to generate this...

In principle, business losses can be offset against profits for tax purposes. In most European countries there is a time delay for offsetting losses of 5 years. Even if ultimately taxable, payments deemed to be revenue receipts would still bring cash flow relief until the happy time when he has...

It looks as if François Chidaine has been badly hit. He is in the process of building a new winery and could go under if his bankers pull the plug http://jimsloire.blogspot.be/2013/06/vouvray-and-montlouis-can-we-help.html?spref=fb .

Careful!! One vigneron is quoted as saying “Even the harvest next year is compromised because the branches will not have time to mature by the end of the summer.”

Update from Jim Budd http://jimsloire.blogspot.be/2013/06/vouvray-hit-by-hail-early-this-morning.html?spref=fb . Chinon also badly hit :( .

Some growers could be in real financial trouble with this following after a pretty small 2012 vintage.

Interesting that this Tavel 08 should have aged so well. I wonder if high acidity in 2008 helped. Another southern rosé which often ages well is Ch“teau Simone at Palette.

There's something very odd about your Foreau bottle. His wines see very little wood and AFAIK none new.

I have been told by two well known vignerons from Touraine that 2012 was a catastrophe in their region; very low quantities and only passable quality subject to a lot of sorting of grapes and care in the wine-making cellars. On the other hand a Ch“teauneuf du Pape producer claimed to be very...