Every visit without exception was excellent, an incredible learning experience, compelling wines, and the excitement each time of walking into a dark cellar full of barrels, glass in hand - what wines will they pour and what will they taste like? One of my favorites was our visit to the cellars of Philippe Pacalet in Beaune. MORE >>

I am still talking about the Martin Scott Portfolio Tasting, but I'm changing it up here at Brooklynguy's place. When I get to go to a tasting like Martin Scott's, I get really excited, and in my excitement I shared lots of my personal wine scores in previous posts. But the Cote de Beaune is the place to go. How do I know this? MORE >>

on Saturday, thinking I would be the first guy at Chambers Street Wines for the tasting. And as a reader named Andrew pointed out in his comments on Spring Tastings in NYC , many of the people in the store seemed to have no idea what was going on, they were there simply because they walked by and smelled the wine in the air. MORE >>

Somebody who happens to produce at least 15 different wines and serves you tastes of each wine during your meal. There were most definitely no vignerons - this is tourist group dining all the way. Sure, it would have been E40, but that version included tasting only 5 wines, the entry-level Aligote and Bourgogne wines. asked Msr. MORE >>

first tasted a Pernot wine a little over a year ago and it was a 2003 Bourgogne red wine. They are not blockbusters (I cannot talk about the two Grand Crus as I have never tasted them), but are somewhat austere and subtle. More elegant than the other 2005 Bourgogne whites that I tasted. 2001 Beaune Clos de dessus les Marconnets. MORE >>