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The Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes is one of the highlights in the 2015 lineup. This wine is coming from a cool terroir below the Monts Luisants hill. This is a brilliant wine and clearly the best Aux Combottes I have tasted from Dujac so far .. and I have followed this wine for two decades of …
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The Morey 1er cru is showing its beauty claiming its right in the 2015 lineup. It's a very harmonious effort offering the best sides of the 2015 vintage. The bouquet offer charming red and dark fruit - very juicy and with a nice deep earthy minerality - textbook Morey. On the palate fine mid-palate …
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Starting with one negociant wine .. the Morey-Saint-Denis village - a lovely and elegant village. The nose offer fresh red and dark berry fruit - lovely depth for this level. On the palate juicy fruit - quite weighty with fine almost silky tannins. Love the balance and drinkability here ... a lot of …
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is a legendary estate, and while the wines are getting tremendous acclaim throughout the world there are one or actually several relatively unknown vineyards and a rather overlooked wine in the portfolio. It is well known that Domaine de la Romanée-Conti produces an …
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I was doing a education session about Pommard with a private client, and he opened the the Pommard Epenots 2010 from Lucien Le Moine to accompany our talk about the Pommard and Volnay appellations - see more about the Winehog Education Sessions here. This wine is a perfect illustration of how …
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