Awards and citations:


1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Showing posts with label Domaine de Haute Perche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Domaine de Haute Perche. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 April 2011

2005 Anjou Villages Brissac Christian Papin, Domaine de Haute Perche


This was an attractive bottle we enjoyed about a week ago. Deep coloured it had dense ripe black fruit – prune and plum. Some evolution and is drinking well now – soft tannins are well integrated – but there is no rush to drink this 2005 up and it can happily be kept for at least another two or three years or more.

Christian Papin in September 2010

Monday, 13 July 2009

Christian Papin – 'under investigation'!


Have just come across this shot I took during this year's Salon des Vins de Loire – the redoubtable and revered wine critic, Michel Smith, interrogating the wines of Christian Papin, Domaine de Haute Perche in Saint-Melaine-sur-Aubance. Small wonder Christian looks worried!