Le Pente de Chavigny, Mikaël Bouges

Mikaël Bouges based in Faverolles-sur-Cher on the south of Loire river. 2005 was his first year on his own, and inspired by Carherine and Didier at Clos Roche Blanche (organic). From 2000 worked Mikaël with his father Elie Bouges at a 17 heactare estate, Domaine de la Puannerie in Saint-Julien-de-Chdon, a neighbouring commune to Faverolles-sur-Cher.
At the moment have Mikaël eight hectares of land, six in Faverolles and tow in Saint-Julien-de-Chedon. The vines are half young ones and older vines between 60-80 years old. Mikaël have Sauvignon Blanc, Menu Pineau and Chenin Blanc plus some ares of Gamay. His main intrest is in the Menu Pineau,Pineau de la Loire(chenin blanc) and Cot.
With this wine Le Pente de Chavigny has he worked oraganically since 2002 .

This wine comes from the Touraine region of the slightly more north-east.
The fragrance is young and fruity elderberries but also pears warm nice tangy smells, some minerality and floral elements, not further complexity, but has great shape to maintain quality throughout. if I’m going to force some apples so it becomes overripe against rotten yellow apple.

Medium plus acidity, with slightly fatter and warmer mouth feel, damn comfortable balance with good fruitiness moderate acidity, and no direct tangible alcohol, the wine will remain a part of the transit and a little extra push has been the wine in the finish, something fire and peppery than Iam used to. The taste is more form biting green apple, black currant leaf, gooseberry

generally a good wine for the money, the balance is good, quality are the same, would not keep the wine more than 2-3 years to when it might be to passé …

Jean-Yves Person , Champ Levat 2007, Mondeuse,Vin de Payes D`Allobrogie

Jean -Yves Peron is a young producer, and started his winery in 2004 and its his 5th vintage now . Jean-Yves winery is in Savoie, on a mere on tow hectares on a steep terrain at an altitude of 400-500 meters in Conflans, close to Albertvill,French Alps.

Jean-Yves Person , Champ Levat 2007, made of Mondeuse,Vin de Payes D`Allobrogie is a well made beautiful wine, with smooth tannins, and colors similar to a Pinot . Mondeuse is a rather rustic variety,comared to a comparable variety which is Syrah .
Alot of the terraces is on schist / slate ,and will give the mineral character

The wine is unfiltered red one , relatively large red heart that is wide, with a reddish-pink with a bit of itself, a development still, close to a Pinot …
Aromas explode at ones in the nose, elegant fruit scents of red fruits with a nice spicy fragrance, dominated by raspberry, violets,strawberries, a stimulating scent of charketurier, leather, more and more complex scent, a bit of burnt rubber and earthy .. I can continue very long;
You will notice some tannins but they are soft ones, medium acidity, fruity, feel deffenitivt the natural grape, red berries creeping up and not exactly a peppery as the smell, but an dry animal feeling , alcohol is undesirable, a simple but good wine, short length, reminds me a little on pinot and syrah in a weird combo.
A rewarding wine for wine lovers who want to go a little beyond their habits, a wine that I can see going super with different types of food

Gut Oggau – Winifred ( Rose ) 2010

My Notes:
The color is really very beautiful, with a small media center.
I spin the glass and I see a fire red orange color against a little salmon-colored tone.
The aroma is slightly more than neutral with some obesity / heat against floral, sweet red berries completely. not quite complex, but with fine fruit on the nose;
This is a dry wine with a medium plus acid with a red currant, raspberry direction, candy-like red gums, with a warm finish, a little spicy tones shown, a small hint of bitterness and mineral elements, but a balanced wine with good length and well worth my time.

Basic About This Wine in general:
The small town Oggau located on the west bank of Lake Neusiedl has been known for its wines since the Romans and probably has the longest tradition of red wines in Austria.
The Gut Oggau estate has also a long history, andhave now been dusted off and revitalized for the future by Eduard Tscheppe and Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck. And the philosophy essential hock point them to bio-dynamic viticulture.
Quality with tradition among innovation and character is The cornerstone of Their Work. And the result is a membership into the Demeter Association.

Around 30 Different vineyard plots in the vicinity of Oggau and Purbach is Cultivated with great care. Each wine is given its own representative effectiv human personality and a place in a family tree with three generations. Eduard Tscheppe symbolically capture the complexity of the wines and the influence of the vine age on Their character.

Gut Oggau ice Certainly one of the exciting nw conceptions In The Austria dynamic wine scene.

Le Vin En Tête – Paris WineTasting

I received an email from a winemaker I met this summer in Sweden, Sebastien Riffault. He sent an email about a wine tasting in Paris on 3-4 December the him self will be attending and serve is on wines, and my spontaneous reaction of surprise and joy to travel further and more and try the amazing natural wines coulde´t be better at this time.

The wine tasting is arranged by Le Vin A Tete ,and has a total of three stores in Paris and a Wine Bar. This event takes place 3-4th December, plus a wine makers dinner on Saturday, my plan is that on Thursday arrived in Paris to visit some wine bars and write / photograph / philosophize about my future plans and draw inspiration and harmony, and establish a network of contacts and life experience .

Le Vin A Tête invite 50 producers from France, Italy, Spain, Greece

* ACQUA FILETTE
* ANCIENNE CORDONNERIE
* BARRANCO OSCURO
* BERA VITTORIO E FIGLI
* BODEGA CAUZON RAMON SAAVEDRA
* CA DE NOCI
* CASCINA ZERBETTA
* CHAMPAGNE BEAUFORT
* CHÂTEAU DE BERU
* CHATEAU DE CHAINCHON
* CHATEAU DE LASCAUX
* CHATEAU DE SURONDE
* CHATEAU HAUT LAVIGNE
* CHATEAU L’HOSPITAL
* CHATEAU MASSEREAU
* CHATEAU SAINTE ANNE
* CLOS DES CAMUZEILLES
* CLOT DE L ORIGINE
* DENAVOLO
* DOMAINE ALEXANDRE BAIN
* DOMAINE ARNAUD COMBIER
* DOMAINE BEAU THOREY
* DOMAINE DE CLAIRAC
* DOMAINE DE SULAUZE – LEFEVRE
* DOMAINE DE VILLENEUVE
* DOMAINE DES AGATES
* DOMAINE DU COULET
* DOMAINE DU DEFFENDS
* DOMAINE DU GUE D’ORGER
* DOMAINE FAY D’HOMME
* DOMAINE FERME DES 7 LUNES (DELOBRE)
* DOMAINE GUIGNIER MICHEL
* DOMAINE GUILLOT BROUX
* DOMAINE GUY BUSSIERE
* DOMAINE JEAN-MICHEL STÉPHAN
* DOMAINE JULIEN MEYER
* DOMAINE LA 36 EME OUVREE
* DOMAINE LECCIA
* DOMAINE LES DEUX TERRES
* DOMAINE MOSSE
* DOMAINE P ET B LAMBERT
* DOMAINE PRIEURE ROCH
* DOMAINE RIFFAULT SEBASTIEN
* DOMAINE TRES TRES VIEILLES VIGNE
* JONC-BLANC
* LE COSTE
* LOIRETTE (BRASS. LA PIGEONNELLE)
* MAISONS BRÛLÉES (AUGÉ)
* MARC TEMPE
* MAS JULIETTE
* MÉDITERRANÉE & CO
* OENOS FRUIT PIERRE LUMIERE
* PHILIPPE PACALET
* PRIEURÉ LA CHAUME
* SARNIN-BERRUX

Pictures will be posted after the trip !!!!!

Domaine Emmanuel Giboulot ”La Combe d’Ève” 2007

From: Domaine Emmanuel Giboulot
Where: Cote de Beaune France
APP: Appellation Cote de Beaune Controlee
Terroire: Clay & Limestone
Cultivation : Organic and biodynamic
Cultivated area : 1ha
Bottles made: 3000
Vine´s age : 30 years
Alcohol :12,8%
Type of tank : Oak barrels
Maturating : In Oak barrels, no new barrels
Bottled : At the domain

Utseendet är gyllengul, ganska utvecklande färg med en syn av något koncentrerad karaktär.
Viner var ganska kallt och jag fick inte så mycket ut av det, nu börjar det arta sig efter några plus grader till, doften är medium framtalande med mineralitet, även mot mogen orange frukt,persika,apelsin,blodapelsin hållet ,honung och toast/vanilj. Vinet är tydligt sägande från den gamla världen då den inte är överpumpad med hög alkohol på nästan och för mycket av allt.
Vinet har allt mer och mer en utvecklande stigning och komplexiteten verkar komma mer och mer efter att vinet blir allt varmare i glaset . Ett vin som fortfarande verkar några år för ungt, men ger väldigt fin upplevelse . Doften annars avger en fin frukt som är balanserad , kanske pga ett bra år och vinet har kvaliteten med sig dels, detta är inget vin som är tungt som blästar på med massa skit utan levererar ärlighet och klantfritt.
Till vad det verkligen smakar, med en ingång av medium syrlighet , rund mjuk och fin frukt koncentration..troligen då av malolaktisk jäsning(antar jag), med smak av vanilj, behaglig orange röd frukt, med en liten mer mogen fruktsöttma av det ungefär samma som dofterna men med en liten mer mineralitet och som att bita i ett grönt äpple .. en ok balanserad munkänsla , och avslutar sig snärtande och ren, med en liten bitter avslutning, och bevarar längden generöst

The Gueuze 100% Lambic Cantillon

Lambic is a spontaneously fermented beer from Pajottenland outside Brussels, Belgium
Gueuze is a blend of young and old lambic. In the bottle there is aandra fermentation when the same yeast sugar from the young lambic blended with the old lambic.
A good Gueuze receive one year on the secondary fermentation in the bottle, but can sometimes be stored up to 10-20 years.

All the beers made ​​with Lambic are naturally sour, The Young beers contain ‘The Sugar Which are Necessary for the second fermentation in the bottle. The three years old Beers Will Contribute Their taste and Their flavor.

The Brew maker Will taste about ten Lambic from Different barrels in order to select five or six Which Will Be Used for the Gueuze 100% Lambic Presenting the typical Characteristics of the beers from the Cantillon brewery.
The bottles are closed with a cork, capped with a crown-cork. They Will Remain Horizontally in a cellar for a year on average, in order to allow the sugars to Be Converted Into Carbon dioxide (second fermentation in the bottle). The saturation of the beer is slow and natural. When the Lambic Becomes sparkling, it is called Gueuze.

When kept in a good cellar, a Cantillon Gueuze Will Still Have an exceptional taste and flavor after 20 years.

Cote De Beaun ”La grand chatelaine” 2009, Domaine Emmanuel Giboulot

During the wine festival out of Daniel Berlin Krog in Skåne-Tranås this summer, I had the honor to meet and taste the wines from Domaine Emmanuel GIBOULOT from Beaune.
Emmanuel began making wine on his own around 1985, with some older and some younger vines planted, he presented his wines in an ecological manner, and as time passed he turned over to organic agriculture around 1996, and works in the same path today.
With a total of 10 hectares of wine-growing land is grown Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Aligoté with biodynamic preparations to enhance the strength of the plant against parasites, and plowing and using its natural compost from stimulating the organic life of the earth.
Products are used in SO2 with awfully cautious care, tailored to each wine, temperature is controlled during fermentation and white wines from Emmanuel fermentation in oak barrels for 12-15 months.

Côte de Beaune ”La Grande Chatelaine” 2009, Domaine Emmanuel Giboulot, are from 2.37 to have wine-growing land, the east near the village of Beaune in the Rue de Seurre, and altogether made ​​288 cases total of this wine.