I'm quite often asked to recommend restaurants in Copenhagen i.e. restaurants with good food and a fine selection of Burgundian wine. The Copenhagen restaurant scene is however very extensive and exiting these years with a lot of really good restaurants and many of them also actually have a nice …
Terroir Insight: Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Clos du Château
Clos du Château is sort of a signature wine for Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. A very expressive Vosne Village made from a vineyard that used to be a part of the park around Château Vosne-Romanee. It's a magnificent village ... one of the very best in my view ... often offering a forward and …
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Visit Philippe Pacalet – tasting the 2015s – the village wines
The first impressions I get from the new vintage is often an extensive tasting at Maison Philippe Pacalet. The wines from Pacalet are perfect for this purpose as the finish malolactic fermentation very early and even more importantly they have a very pure and clear expression of the vintage and the …
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Visit – Maison Chantereves – tasting the 2015 reds
On my March trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure to revisit Chantereves- one of the rising stars within the world of micro negociants. Tomoko explaining about the new wine Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Damodes Chantereves, Savigny, Rhingau and Japan Chantereves is a small negociant located in a …
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Bouchard Pere et Fils, Monthélie Les Duresses 2014
It's easy to be overwhelmed by all the Grand Crus made by Bouchard Pere et Fils, but there are other gems in the large portfolio of this big house ... and in my view the wines from the Monthélie appellation are some of them. I tasted the regular Monthélie from cask in November 2015 - and it was a …
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