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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Dear Wine Friends ... It's Christmas time ... and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the generous support throughout 2015. 2015 has been a great year for the blog ... and I still have many tasting notes to publish from the tastings in November ... so stay tuned for more …
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Emmanuel Rouget made some spectacular 2002s ... and the Vosne-Romanee Beaumonts is most certainly no exception. The bouquet is bursting with predominantly red fruit - strawberries and pomegranate - spiced with complex variations of Vosne spices and a delicately earthy minerality. On the palate juicy …
[Read more...] about Emmanuel Rouget, Vosne-Romanee Beaumonts 2002
The Vosne Romanee Malconsort 2015 is still young and just beginning to display slightly developed notes. The nose is offering quite dense and rich ripe red and dark berry fruit ... plum, cherries .. spiced with a earthy minerality, violets and hints of liquorice. On the palate rich and quite dense …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Clos Frantin, Vosne-Romanee Malconsorts 2005
The Echezeaux La Grande Complication is a quite new wine from Mongeard-Mugneret. It's made from old vines, and is sort of replacing the Echezeaux Vieilles Vignes in the Mongeard lineup ... the Vielles Vignes plot was donated to the Hospices de Beaune after the 2011 vintage. La Grande Complication is …
[Read more...] about Mongeard Mugneret, Echezeaux Grande Complication 2012
The Lignier Clos de la Roche 1996 is a magnificent effort and is now fulfilling the great promise it showed in its youth. More forward than the bottle I tasted in 2014 ... showing beautifully. In the nose layers of airy red berry fruit infused with delicate sous-bois notes, hints of truffle and a …
