News and travels
Our trips away with, wine tours and everything wine.
Tank 27 - Champagne Boizel
A drive out to Épernay to see my friend Alina at Champagne Boizel, a tank of Rilly-la-Montagne Pinot Noir we pressed at Marc Chauvet, the reason every Champagne cellar glows yellow and a Blanc de Noirs with a silk scarf to remember the day.
Beaune and the Italians
A back roads ride through harvest villages to Domaine David Duband to see old Pegasus Bay colleagues Luca and Eric, foot stomping grapes the traditional way, foulage au pied, before cycling home between Premier Cru and Grand Cru vines with a long held idea about NV Wines tours to Champagne and Burgundy coming back into focus.
Making Champagne and Pinot Noir
The morning after picking wraps at Marc Chauvet, racking and blending in the cellar with Jules, feeding a fermenting wine and finally trusting herself on the pump, plus the story of the one bonus red only possible because this vintage was good enough to spare the fruit, left to ferment on wild yeast at Jules's own risk.