2024
July 20: Disappointment among winegrowers: Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne sets the permitted yield for the 2024 harvest
May 24: Champagne Glavier: Passion Chardonnay and the month of May. Impressions from Cramant by Véronique & Philippe Glavier
January 27: The challenge: Clos le Léon in Dizy. Jean-Paul Hebrart, Champagne Marc Hebrart, about his new vineyard.
January 20: At Les Avisés with Champagne Guiborat Prisme.16 Blanc De Blancs and a thunderclap: Jacques Selosse V.O.. Version Originale Blanc de Blancs
2023
December 15: Denis Bunner on Bollinger’s Champagne Concept
December 15: New Playlist Champagne Cuisine Health - The Tricks of the Trade
November 14: New YouTube-Channel biodynworld with Hartmut Spiess and Christan Göldenboog at the Dottenfelderhof
July 17: Two bottles empty: Champagne Jean Velut, Montgueux, Lumière et Craie and Rosé
July 16: Tasting 36 bottles. Video on Dosage: Insight into the heart and temperament of Domaine Jacques Selosse with Anselme and Guillaume Selosse
July 14: New Playlist: Top-Growers in the Vineyard
July 13: For the occasion: A prelude to Champagne and Sparkling in Italy: Charles Heidsieck Double Feature at Acqua Pazza, Bologna: Brut Réserve + Rosé Réserve. And some thoughts on hermaphroditism
June 4: Champagne Alfred Gratien in Jeroboam, poured by Nicolas Jaeger - News from the Subtreasury Champagne Office
June 3: Champagne Vintage + Harvest Report with new Playlist
May 07 Appetizer: Dosage tasting at Domaine Jacques Selosse with Anselme and Guillaume Selosse
May 03 Didier and Pierre-Guillaume Gimonnet of Champagne Pierre Gimonnet in Cramant on pruning.
May 03 New series: Champagne Discours Viticulture. Champagne top growers at work in their vineyards
April 26: Official announcement of the Subtreasury Champagne Office: the bigger the bottle, the better the world. And the champagne. Some hints.
April 25: Champagne Fleur de Miraval Exclusively Rosé in Format Jeroboam mit Rodolphe Péters
April 14: Benoît Gouez, Chef de Caves Champagne Moët & Chandon. Double Feature Grand Vintage 2015 + Champagne Harvest 2022
March 30: Ristorante Agli Amici 1887, Udine: It's never too late when the risotto is excellent
March 30: Champagne Pierre Gerbais Grains de Celles Extra Brut 2018 from Celles-sur-Ource - Bottle empty in the Ristorante Agli Amici 1887, Udine
March 29:
Champagne Telmont Sans Soufre, Bottle Empty + and a Chinese bestseller from 1076 about salpeter, charcoal and sulfur
March 15: Francisco J. Ayala (1934 - 2023) In Memoriam.
Lodi winemaker and geneticist. The wild type allele does not exist + the conflicts in Cicero's translation of Aristotle's aition.
January 07: Predictions + expectations 2023: Even the Amur tiger is looking for champagne. But which one?
2022
December 27: The challenge: Clos le Léon in Dizy. Jean-Paul Hebrart, Champagne Marc Hebrart, about his new vineyard.
December 20: At Les Avisés with Champagne Guiborat Prisme.16 Blanc De Blancs and a thunderclap: Jacques Selosse V.O.. Version Originale Blanc de Blancs
December 7: One more new bottles empty: Champagne Bollinger La Grande Année 2014 with some questions
December 7: Cyril Brun, Champagne Charles Heidsieck, on the incredible Blanc des Millénaires 2007
December 6: Champagne Gaston Chiquet Spécial Club Brut 2013 with a Friedrich Nietzsche on the pleasure of acidity
November 13: Benoît Gouez on Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013: Champagne of Spring or Autumn?
November 12:
Champagne: A dangerous wine.
About glass eyes, wooden legs and virologists drinking from the bottle
October 20: Benoît Marguet, Champagne Marguet, Ambonnay, on the 2021 vintage
October 19: Hervé Dantan, Champagne Lanson Chef de Cave, on a potential vintage 2001
October 3:
Clos Lanson 2007: Courage in acid, storm and hail
September 25: News from Le Gai Savoir: In future Champagne Harvest Report will be even more precise as Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Vintage Report.
September 6: Harvest 2022
September 5:
Arthur Larmandier, Champagne Larmandier-Bernier,
about yeasts, barrels and the upcoming Vintage 2021
August 29: Champagne le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs - a discovery, back to the Mesnil taste and a new empty bottle
August 24:
Antoine Malassagne, Champagne AR Lenoble,
on a possible vintage Champagne 2021 and the potential of his reserve wines
July 18:
Émilien Boutillat, Chef de Cave Champagne Piper-Heidsieck, Émilien Boutillat, Chef de Cave Champagne Piper-Heidsieck, on the art of assemblage Harvest 2021
July 17:
Charles Fourny, Champagne Veuve Fourny & Fils,
über
Vignes semi-larges
June 22:
Laurent Champs,
Champagne Vilmart & Cie in Rilly La Montagne on the Harvest 2021
June 21:
Finally two new bottles empty:
Champagne David Coutelas Cuvée César Rosé
and
Champagne Thiénot Vintage 2012
June 10:
Champagne Charles Heidsieck's Cyril Brun,
Chef de Caves, on Prediction and Expectation Harvest 2022
June 9:
Champagne Bollinger’s Denis Bunner,
Adjoint Chef de Cave, on Style and
the Harvest 2021
May, 27:
Laurent Fédou,
Chef de Caves · Champagne Canard Duchêne, Champagne Library Report Harvest 2021
May 24: Impressions: Côteaux Champenois, Bouzy, Mai 2022
May 6:
Nicolas Jaeger, Champagne Alfred Gratien:
Assemblage News, Harvest 2021
April 25:
Anselme Selosse on Vignes semi-larges
April 18:
Tasting Côteaux Champenois
with Benoît Lahaye, Bérèche, Bollinger, Charles Heidsieck, Pierre Gerbais, Marc Hébrart
April 12: Benoît Marguet presents new group with organic winemakers
April 8: Benoît Gouez, Chef de caves, Moët & Chandon: Assemblage News, Harvest 2021
April 7: Bottle empty with Champagne Nominé Renard Club Millésime 2013 Brut and Walter Kruspel
April 6: Véronique Glavier, Champagne Philippe Glavier, Cramant, about the Printemps des Champagnes 2022 and Passion Chardonnay
February 20: New bottle empty with Champagne Jacquesson Cuvée N° 743 plus Blanc de Blancs Avize 1990
February 10: Didier Gimonnet, Champagne Pierre Gimonnet & Fils, Cuis on the upcoming vintage champagnes 2019 + 2020
January 1: Champagne Charles "Charly" Heidsieck recently launched two Blanc de Blancs: the Powerhouse Blanc des Millenaires and a non-vintage Chardonnay champagne
- From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by David Haig, a book that at least deals with the philosophical positions of Ernst Mayr, and who does that nowadays, although I'm not so sure whether the author has captured them adequately. More on that soon under Opinions.
- Wilhelm Nestle's The Crisis of Christianity: Its Causes, Evolution and Significance, with some notable chapters on Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Hegel and especially Friedrich Nietzsche. It is always amazing to see who correctly interprets Nietzsche's moral philosophy - and who does not.
- La Position du shooter couchéby Jean-Patrick Manchette, even as The Position of the Sleeping Killer in the Black Series
version by Bastei Lübbe. Always amusing to read how humorlessly the Ross Thomas fan Manchette describes the trigger of a hunting rifle whose double barrel is in a mouth while the big toe goes to work. When reading, I thought of the guys who posted the crime stories at Bastei and Ullstein in the 1980s. Never got into literary TV, but good taste. Greetings from Santa Barbara and The Fourth Durango.
- And, last but not least, Black Postcards: A Memoir by Dean Wareham.
In between, see photo, been to Les Avizes and discussed les vignes semi-larges with Anselme Selosse. More on that soon under News 2022. Also an interview with Benoît Gouez, Chef de Cave Moët & Chandon about the 2021 harvest and the Grand Vintage 2013.
Otherwise, the long, sensible wait for Mike Ehrmantraut. He doesn't drink champagne, although there's plenty of it for sale on Uptown Boulevard NE in Albuquerque. But Ehrmantraut is almost never seen on Uptown Boulevard NE, given the car, the face, and the job, no wonder. For that he comes back, April 18, 2022, and this in 13 episodes.
