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 Michelle Couly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Couly. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Move aside Robert, Jancis, Neal, Panos, etc – here comes the cannie taster

d'Yquem boxing clever with a sample of nascent 2015

Yesterday at Pierre and Bertrand Couly's winery in Chinon I was privileged to watch the future of wine tasting – a highly trained boxer able to insert their hyper-sensitive tongue into a wine glass – truly a super-taster!  

Bertrand Couly – what does d'Yquem think of my 2015 Chinon?
The Couly family checking impressions of the 2015 
Chinon Blanc against d'Yquem's.....