One of my favourite Burgundian estates, Domaine Dublère, has been sold, and will continue as a part of Domaine des Terres de Velle. Blair Pethel, the founder of Domaine Dublère, has decided to pass the torch -- and the estate vineyards and installations -- to Sophie and Fabrice Laronze, the …
As we learn … and get better wines – a 2018 perspective
The 2018 vintage is by many already getting acclaimed and by some compared to the 1947 vintage ... as one of the solar and "great" vintages. This can seem quite premature, as the wines in some places still are completing the malolactic fermentation. That being said - it is still interesting …
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The wines I drink and enjoy – Jürgen Von der Mark
The wines of Jürgen Von der Mark are to be honest amongst my new favourites - as wines for pure enjoyment and pleasure. Germany is a bit outside my home turf ... but an old passion and pleasure of mine, and I really has taken a new and somewhat different interest to German wines - since I …
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Frost in Burgundy – in the morning of April 14th
Sadly the frost has now returned to Burgundy again, and many if not most vignerons have battled the frost in the morning of April 14th. Great work by all the people fighting the frost ... So far I have seen some but not widespread damage as yet. I will follow the reports coming up during …
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Terroir View: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots
The Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots is in my view slowly but surely raising it's game in the Liger-Belair lineup, after a somewhat less focused start in the 2006 vintage and the following years. Now 13 years later we see more definition and a more precise wine - now made under the biodynamic regime …
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