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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2002 Cros Parantoux from Emmanuel Rouget is quite a step up from his otherwise delicious Echezeaux 2002. The bouquet is crammed with layers of predominantly red fruit - spiced with complex variations of Vosne spices and a quite earthy minerality. On the palate layers of velvet fruit ... deep, …
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The 2002 Echezeaux from Emmanuel Rouget is still showing great and quite youthful form. The bouquet is bursting with red fruits and Vosne spices ... expressive and forward. On the palate layers of cool ripe fruit - silky, juicy and well structured. It's rich and long but still quite lightfooted and …
The 2010 Chevalier-Montrachet is a truly magnificent wine and one of the very best wines I have tasted from this legendary estate. The bouquet offer airy and cool white and yellow fruits infused with a filigree and deep stony minerality - notes of acacia and acacia blossom spiced with some fresh …
[Read more...] about Domaine Leflaive, Chevalier-Montrachet 2010
Back to Chassagne with the 1er cru Les Macherelles - a terroir located just north of the Chassagne village, and south of Chenevottes. The nose offer classic Chassagne minerality .. expressive and intense fruit. On the palate rich and weighty with a powerful ripe midpalate fruit. The 2013 acidity is …
[Read more...] about Domaine Hubert Lamy, Chassagne Les Macherelles 2013
Domaine Roulot is one of my favorite producers of white Burgundy and it was therefore a treat to taste - almost - the full range of 2013s with Jean-Marc Roulot in Meursault on my March trip to Burgundy. Photo: Jean-Marc Roulot …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Roulot, Tasting of the 2013 vintage
