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The Master of Montrachet

Posted by Frank Ward on September 30, 2018

September 2018. PORTRAIT. Pierre RAMONET of Burgundy, just short of eighty when I met him in the early 1980s, and one of the greatest wine makers in France, had dreamed all his life of owning a parcel of a small plot of land south of Beaune that happens to give the best dry white wine in the world. The grand cru vineyard called Montrachet. Ramonet had long owned parts of the adjoining vineyards Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, both grand cru vineyards too and able to yield great wines, so it cannot be said that he had ever played second fiddle. But when at Iong last, in his seventy-third year, he obtained a tiny segment of Montrachet in 1978, it was as if a virtuoso violinist had come into possession of a Stradivarius [….]. Sebastião Salgado

Posted in Burgundy, Oenophilia | Tagged: Alexandre Dumas, André Simon, anthony goldthorp, Burgundy, Connoisseur magazine, Hugh Johnson, Marquis de Laguiche, Mme Bize-Leroy, Montrachet, O.W. Loeb, Pierre Forgeot, Pierre Poupon, Ramonet, The Wines of Burgundy | Leave a Comment »

Tasting le Pin for Two Pins!

Posted by Frank Ward on March 5, 2014

March 2014. Together with Andrew Jefford, well-known wine writer, I am poised to taste two vintages of Château Le Pin, a Pomerol that, since its creation in the early 1980s, has achieved what’s called cult status. Collectors have shown themselves willing to pay several thousand pounds for a single bottle, especially for the 1982. The 1982 was, in fact, the very first vintage of this rare wine, made from a plot measuring a mere one-third of a hectare. The most amazing of all, the vines – mostly Merlot – in that first vintage were only four years old [….]

Posted in Bordeaux, Mature wines, Oenophilia | Tagged: Andrew Jefford, anthony goldthorp, Bordeaux, château le pin 1982, château le pin 1998, Frank Ward, O.W. Loeb, Pomerol | Leave a Comment »

The Nectar of the Gods: Frank Ward on investing in wine

Posted by Frank Ward on December 5, 2013

There are two chief motives for investing in wine. Monetary gain is one; buying young, high-quality wines and waiting for them to improve, for the delectation of you and your friends, is the other. A bottle of good wine is a time capsule. Without moving an inch it makes a journey through time and becomes utterly transformed in the process. The aggressive tannins and acids in infant wine soften and harmonize slowly, transmuting into perfumes and flavours of astonishing beauty. […]

Posted in Oenophilia | Tagged: Andrew Jefford, Domaine Rousseau, Farn Vintners, Frank Ward, Hugh Johnson, in bond, investing in wine, Jancis Robinson, O.W. Loeb, Roberson, Robert Parker | Leave a Comment »

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