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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
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Domaine Fabien Coche is one of my new favourites in Meursault: a producer whose wines are still affordable and who makes vivacious and rather classic wines (the estate was formerly known as Domaine Coche-Bizouard). The Meursault Chevalières - from vines located just below Luchets and above Meix …
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The Goutte d'Or is quite a step up from Fabien Coche's otherwise excellent villages. It offers a tighter, more precise framework with intense mid-palate fruit - pure and vivid, and offering immense hedonistic treats. Very lively and forward with plenty of aging potential. This is a delightful …
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Vincent Ledy is one of a kind: a guy with a great, unpolished talent, and a vigneron that no doubt will divide opinions amongst many wine geeks. His old-vine intensity (most plots are older than 40 years), low-sulphur vinification and bottling, and unmanipulated fruit - no new oak - produce both …
The world is strange. I have been very lucky assembling enough material to continue writing articles during the last three months, when travelling was banned. My first post-virus tasting - earlier this month while observing the rules of social distancing and disinfection - was in Vosne-Romanée: …
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