Neil Becket

3 weeks ago | worldoffinewine.com | Neil Beckett |Neil Becket

Neil Beckett reports on the 2024 Burgundy vintage. As a Scot who grew up on the country’s Atlantic coast, I was able to express what I hope came across as genuine sympathy when listening to the many tales of weather woe related by Burgundy vignerons after the exceptionally challenging and wet 2024 growing season.

4 weeks ago | worldoffinewine.com | Neil Beckett |Neil Becket

Caroline Frey and Peter Gago introduce Neil Beckett to 2021 Grange La Chapelle, a blend which seems at once almost unimaginable and written in the stars. Origin, identity, individuality, quality—all are crucial questions for fine wine. And they are particularly searching, stimulating questions to ask of this new one, the prodigious Syrah/Shiraz offspring of two very distinguished parents: Domaine de la Chapelle’s Hermitage La Chapelle and Penfolds Grange.

1 month ago | worldoffinewine.com | Neil Beckett |Neil Becket

Caroline Frey and Peter Gago introduce Neil Beckett to 2021 Grange La Chapelle, a blend which seems at once almost unimaginable and written in the stars. Origin, identity, individuality, quality—all are crucial questions for fine wine. And they are particularly searching, stimulating questions to ask of this new one, the prodigious Syrah/Shiraz offspring of two very distinguished parents: Domaine de la Chapelle’s Hermitage La Chapelle and Penfolds Grange.

Jan 7, 2025 | worldoffinewine.com | Neil Beckett |Neil Becket

Gosset 21 Ans de Cave a Minima Extra Brut is the oldest and rarest wine in the house’s Compte d’Âge range so far. Neil Beckett reports. Some age gracefully. Among them, happily, is Gosset Champagne, which applies equally to the maison—“the oldest wine house in Champagne” (1584)—its wines, and its maverick and spirited chef de cave Odilon de Varine, who combines to excellent effect creative curiosity, even impishness, and high seriousness.