Domaine Christian Serafin – A Father’s Perseverance Leads to a Domaine’s Greatest Achievements

  Tales of perseverance, strife and hardship often lend insight to the character of a wine-maker as well as the wines produced as a result of their steadfastness. One tale of immense perseverance is that of a Polish immigrant named Stanislaus Serafin, who in the late 1930s settled in the village of Gevrey Chambertin with [...]

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Daniel Barraud – “The King of Maconnais”

For four vintages now, I’ve been singing the praises of not only the man himself, but of every single bottle of wine that emerges from the cellars of this incredible white wine producer in the southern reaches of Burgundy.  Located in the southern Burgundian region known as the Maconnais, just a short drive south of [...]

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Twenty Four and At the Door – My Afternoon at DRC

My wife and I tucked our daughter into bed last night, our evening’s ritual resulting in our collapsing on the couch as we gathered our reading materials and flipped a coin to select our delivery menu for dinner.  We wouldn’t change our routine for the world, for these are the times in our life that [...]

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Domaine Denis Mortet – Describing a Master…

  The story of Domaine Denis Mortet is not a long one. It does not begin in some 19th century castle in the ruins of an old family vineyard. And it continues today only because of the will of one very strong widow. And an incredible son… Clive Coates MW, in his book entitled Cote [...]

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Lafarge – “One of the trinity of supreme Volnay producers”

Most of my closest clients and certainly my friends are well aware that I began in the Burgundy business as a lad. It was in 1984 that I experienced my first round of professional Burgundy tastings and within those first moments in time were the wines imported by Becky Wasserman. I had casually tasted wines [...]

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Pousse D’Or – “The DRC of the Cote de Beaune”

This is my fourth vintage with the great Patrick Landanger, and this is without question one of the greatest; scoring exactly as high as the 2002s and within 1 point of the coveted 2005s (from Burghound)!  I’ve shared with some of you, my long-time Burgundy clients, the story of this estate.  But there are a [...]

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