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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Montrachet is a legendary vineyard, and while its boundaries have been fixed since 1921, some neighbouring plots and parcels are more closely related to it than others. Thibault Morey has three plots located very close to the promised land. The first is his Batard-Montrachet, located a wall- and …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Morey-Coffinet Chassagne Blanchot Dessus
I know I can be somewhat grumpy at times, and complain that many wines produced in Chablis do not treat my snout as well as expected. Clearly, the well-known, top domaines in Chablis always perform. It has been increasingly rare to find new estates to promote - until now, however, as some new …
[Read more...] about Chablis discovery: Domaine Antoine et Laurent Robin
The 2020 Hospices de Beaune wine auction in Beaune, scheduled for November 15, has been postponed to a later date. Here is the press release concerning the cancellation of the 160th Hospices de Beaune auction, the largest charity wine auction in the world.. A new date will be announced …
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Time is flying. There have already been 11 vintages since Domaine de la Romanée-Conti took on the making of a red Corton in 2009, and now the legendary estate is tackling another of Burgundy's greats: Corton-Charlemagne. Its opportunity comes, of course, via the vineyards of the historic …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Corton-Charlemagne
Minerality, emotional energy, and hedonistic joy are for me very important parts of a good wine. A wine without a lively, defined or precise expression of terroir cannot be a great wine, much less a vin d'émotion. This was my statement before tasting the wines from Rose & Arrow. Yet while …
