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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
To the big guns …. first is the Meursault Poruzots 2015 – a very elegant Poruzot with a lovely freshness for the vintage. The nose is offering pure and ripe white and yellow orchard fruits – white peach and pear - fine detailed minerality and a quite firm reductive note. On the palate, beautifully …
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Next up the Meursault Tillet 2015 – from a Lieu-dit quite high on the slope. The nose offer nice relatively cool fruit – quite reduced – hints of gun-powder and stony minerality. On the palate, quite generous – yet both very fresh and focused with a lovely balance. A very delicate and detailed wine …
The first wine – the Bourgogne Blanc 2015 – offered a lovely balance. Quite reduced with a cool white fruit for the vintage … nice vibrant freshness – lovely detail for this level, offering a nice detailed mid-palate fruit and a nice focused citrus infused finish with a nice touch of minerality. …
The Bonnes Mares is a step up from the Clos de la Roche - offering additional depth and weight. It's quite reduced offering only hints of whats underneath ... but clear signs that it's a a quite cool Bonnes Mares with some energetic red currant and pomegranate notes in the nose and on the palate. …
The Clos de la Roche 2015 is a more weighty and powerful effort than the Clos Saint Denis. This is a more ripe and dense wine .. lacking a bit of the exuberant freshness and energy found in the Clos Saint Denis. In the bouquet more darker notes - dark cherries, plum and cassis - deep earthy …
