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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The treat of tasting a great and delightful wine from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is rare .. both due to the financial expenses of tasting one of the top end wines - and perhaps even more so due to the fact that one have to find a wine that is in what I would call a gentle drinking mood. One such …
[Read more...] about Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Romanée-Saint-Vivant 2009 – 7 years after
The focus on drinkable and at least somewhat affordable wines has led to the initiation of the Winehog Award. I know that most wines with an 86-point rating often are overlooked and forgotten, while the 93-point Malconsorts gets more attention.The fact is, however, that I often can find as …
[Read more...] about Winehog Awards – affordable and enjoyable wines in focus
A few weeks back, I was at a tremendous tasting where three bottles of Cathiard Malconsorts were opened as an extra treat at the end of the event. The trio of 2014, 2015 and 2016 is a display of Vosne supremacy. Not many wines outside the appellation are a match for a Cathiard firing on all …
[Read more...] about What are we drinking? Cathiard Malconsorts x 3
In the summer of 2016 I had an enlightening experience, as I tasted the first truly interesting and enjoyable Danish wine: Njord, made from Pinot Noir Précoce, an early-ripening variant of the Burgundian stalwart. I have therefore followed the Njord project ever since, and while it is very …
[Read more...] about Njord Pinot Noir Précoce 2018 – Mr. Solaris reporting from the Zealand Alps
In my view, Romanée-Saint-Vivant is one of the most sensual and enchanting of the grands crus. The perfumed refinement of a great RSV is almost unmatched (aside from two monopoles just above the vineyard). Domaine J-J Confuron is one of the less prominent producers within this fine vineyard, and …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron Romanée-Saint-Vivant
