On our last day in Bourgogne we had a meeting at Bouchard Père & Fils. A big thanks to Victor Pepin that set up the meeting and Morgan Delacloche that took care of us.

We had the regular tour around the Château and then a private tasting in Mr. Henriot's cellar (Henriot, Champagne producer that bought Bouchard in 1995). A total of ten wines, a personal favorite Volnay 1ér Cru" Cailleretes Ancienne Cuvée Carnot" 2010. I just have a thing for european wines 2010 vintage, they have alot of acidity and i just love that. The Volnay had a high acidity with a clean, smooth, elegant highly concentrated red fruit, with a refreshing spicey touch, valued at 75 euro.

From Bouchard's cellar, collection of theire own wines, It's the biggest collection of old wines in the world.

Then we visited Domaine Jobard-Morey in Meursault.

A really good end to our short Bourgogne trip. We probably spent 2,5 hours here, mr. Remy Ehret-Jobard had so much to say and we had no proplem listening. A true terroir producer! The two single pictures above shows what I brought back home from this visit. If I could, it would had been more.

Next day we finished our winetrip by visiting Vincent Paris in Cornas in Northern Rhône. Really good wines with alot of fruit concentration, no new oak. Understand why Mostue started a collaboration and invested in plots here.

After visiting all the famous sites in Côte de Nuits we headed sout and a visit at the world famous "Le Montrachet", I wounder how this day could be any better...

...well, by beating a former co-driver of the swedish "rally circus" and a hardcore F1 fan in Go-Kart, there was pretty much no point to do anything else that day...

Except celebrate, in style...

This was my suggestion of celebraiting, but I was a couple houndred thousand short! To actually see this in a BOOKSTORE!! 

The "missing" bottle, DRC "la Romanée Conti" 2006 were next door, going for 13900 euro a bottle...

Instead we went to Meusault, found a nice hotel and had a fantastic night over a 5 course dinner, wine, beer and a couple of rounds of chess.

Our journey continued on the second day with som "old school" sightseeing. When in Burgundy, there is just so much to see. First of -Chambertin "Clos de Beze" world's oldest "clos" from 628 a.d. Beautiful landscape and a beautiful day. After some pictures and observing how they work with there machines we continued on to...

...Clos de Vougeot and the "Château du Clos de Vougeot".

Clos de Vougeot was originally run by the monks of Cîteaux, planting and building up the vineyard 12th and early14th century. In 1336 the 50ha plot and stone wall was complete. The current building was complete in 1551 and became Ch. du Clos de Vougeot. The Cistercians ran Clos de Vougeot until the french revolution in 1789. Since then it has been in private hands and sold a couple of times. And beacause of the inheritance law, it now have over 80 different owners.

The sightseeing of Côtes de Nuits ended with a visit at the Romanée Conti, the monopolé of Domaine Romanée Conti (DRC) We had the pleasure of seeing the horse working in the field.

 

Our first day of inspiration we spent at Patrice Rion in Premeaux Prissey just outside Nuit-Saint Georges. He is a low scale producer with high quality wines that has run his on Domaine since 2000 (-01 vintage). Best wine here was the Nuits Saint George 1'er cru Clos des Argillierès 2010. Tried the -09 aswell, but 2010 is a fantastic vintage in Bourgogne in my opinion.

Then we went on to another small producer with some really fantastic wines.

This is Francois Bertheau in Chambolle-Musigny and me over a (new) oak barrell of 1'er cru Les Amoureuses 2011 he uses about 30% new oak in this wine and 70% of old (2-3 year old barrells) oak.

90 euros cant buy you more happines!

(This one is for you Sören Jerslev)

 This is about five weeks after we planted the vines and alot has happend. The vines have sprung into life and are about 30-40 cm high. They have between 2-5 buds each, except for one.

 Then there's the problems with weeds, but after a couple of hours work its all good again.

A Rondo vine

 

Although it's a lot of work you still have to find some time to relax and enjoy the good weather. Later on there will be some pictures from our trip to Bourgogne in search of  inspiration and the development of the vines, because they are growing fast.