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Opening a Bottle: Olivier Bernstein
Opening a Bottle: Olivier Bernstein
THE WINES… Afocused, precise fleet of Pinot Noir from some of the Côte de Nuits’ very best vineyards in Vougeot, Chambolle-Musigny, Morey-St-Denis and most notably, Gevrey-Chambertin. Of the 10 wines they make, seven are Grand Cru while the other three are Premier Cru. In older vintages (2011 and before) you might stumble upon a little Chardonnay, although their focus at the moment is solely on Pinot Noir. …AND WHY THEY STAND OUT Let’s be clear: these wines are not affordable. On the low end, bottles cost $75 (for a village Gevrey-Chambertin). On the high end, $525 (a Grand Cru Chambertin). After tasting their fleet of wines, I hesitated for...
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How Radical Risk-Taking Made Olivier Bernstein One Of Burgundy’s Top Producers
How Radical Risk-Taking Made Olivier Bernstein One Of Burgundy’s Top Producers
Katie Kelly BellContributor ForbesLife I cover what's interesting in wine, spirits, food, and travel. Olivier Bernstein talks about making wine in Burgundy. OLIVIER BERNSTEIN Olivier Bernstein, owner and winemaker for his eponymous winery, is not from Burgundy; he did not inherit a vineyard and yet, as of now, he owns two of Burgundy’s Grand Cru vineyards (that posses some of the oldest vines in the region) and he can claim worldwide critical acclaim for his wines. So, how did an outsider in Burgundy, a notoriously insular region, manage to elevate his wines into the stratosphere of connoisseurs and collectors in such...
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Club Oenologique: Interview: Burgundy’s Olivier Bernstein
Club Oenologique: Interview: Burgundy’s Olivier Bernstein
Read the original article at cluboenologique.com by Roger Morris When Olivier Bernstein decided to found a Burgundy wine maison in 2007, he owned no vineyards, and had no experience making wine from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes, but his wines are now among the region’s most sought-after Most people who seek out a new career as a producer of luxury goods are content to safely start at the bottom – or at least in the middle – and work their way up. When Olivier Bernstein decided to found a Burgundy wine maison from scratch in 2007, the business plan of...
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Forbes: The Glorious Burgundies of Olivier Bernstein
Forbes: The Glorious Burgundies of Olivier Bernstein
Click here to read the full article at Forbes / Author: Tom Hyland "It's really all about the viticulture - the choices you make in the vineyard." - Olivier Bernstein Olivier Bernstein, 52, is the proprietor of Domaine Olivier Bernstein in Beaune. He currently produces 10 wines from Burgundy: 7 Grand Cru and 3 Premier Cru. I recently sat down with him in Chicago, and asked him about his work over the years and what his philosophy is. I was also able to taste several of his current 2016 Burgundies. Tell me a little about your experience as a vintner...
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Burgundy’s new breed of wine producers
Burgundy’s new breed of wine producers
"Burgundy lovers, such as the hundreds who attended more than 20 tastings during London's Burgundy Week earlier this month, may complain about the recent steep price rises for the wines they enjoy so much. Yet the price of the land that is responsible for them has risen even more sharply. "In the past nine years, while grape prices have risen threefold, the price of prime sites on the Côte d'Or has increased tenfold. "Burgundy's top vineyards are now so valuable that banks are apparently falling over themselves to lend against them. Twelve years ago, Olivier Bernstein owned a modest wine...
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The Maestro of Mazis
The Maestro of Mazis
“With the flagship Mazis-Chambertin leading the way, Olivier Bernstein has created a stable of stellar red Burgundies… “…Bernstein's 2013s are terrific, ranging in score from 92 to 95 points; his '14s raise the bar even higher, beginning at 94 points and ending with the 97-point Mazis-Chambertin. As good as those are, his 2015s may be even better, with an extra dimension of fleshiness and energy, gorgeous Pinot Noir fruit flavors wrapped in spicy oak and the telltale stamp of each site…” Read the full article here.
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Clos de Vougeot 2013s compared blind
Clos de Vougeot 2013s compared blind
"I have a couple of reservations about London wine brokers Fine and Rare Wines. Firstly, although they tend to dominate wine-searcher.com's listings, they hold no stock so are operating on a very different basis from their peers. You typically have to wait a month or two before taking delivery of wine (or whisky nowadays) you order from them. And secondly they saw fit to let Joss Fowler go recently. My view of this is coloured by the fact that I admire Joss as a writer so much that I was thrilled when he agreed to write for us (see Correlating...
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Olivier Bernstein’s 2013s Turn Heads After Complicated Growing Season
Olivier Bernstein’s 2013s Turn Heads After Complicated Growing Season
ST. HELENA, CA (October 7, 2015) — The 2013 vintage release of rising star Olivier Bernstein has stunned critics around the world with red wines from the most esteemed premier cru and grand cru vineyards in the Côte de Nuits, overcoming obstacles set forth by a complicated growing season in Burgundy. Though the cold and damp spring caused initial concern among growers in the Côte d’Or, the warm months of July and August created optimal conditions leading up to harvest. “The dry month of September, in conjunction with the hard work done in the vineyards, left us in a...
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North Meets South: Fine Wines of the Côte d’Or Unite for U.S. Wine Dinner Series
North Meets South: Fine Wines of the Côte d’Or Unite for U.S. Wine Dinner Series
ST. HELENA, CA (October 1, 2015) — Wilson Daniels’ Burgundy partners Domaine Leflaive and Maison Olivier Bernstein will join in hosting a series of wine dinners and tastings this October across the U.S., showcasing 2013 vintage wines from the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune. Brice de la Morandière, new managing director of Domaine Leflaive in Puligny-Montrachet, and Olivier Bernstein, who operates out of Beaune, will present their wines in Denver, Houston and Los Angeles. These Burgundy estates champion a similar ethos — to create wines that fully express the purity and diversity of the land — and so...
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