Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Always nice with a Special Club bottle - the Launois 1999 Blanc de Blanc is a lovely champagne, with good body and precision. Very nice freshness, but think it still need some time before it will show the full potential. Still it's drinking well, a very good or even fine effort. …
[Read more...] about Launois Pere et fils, Special Club Blanc de Blanc 1999
The Jacques Selosse, Substance Brut, a very fine champagne. Good body and lenght with quite mature flavors, good acidity and structure. While not the most complex Champagne, it offers great drinkability as all Selosse wines. Still lacking the ultimate complexity and refinement - and the slight …
Roses de Jeanne Rosé de Saignée Creux d'Enfer 2004 from Cedric Bouchard was quite a strange glass. Quite a lot of sweetness and a very expressive sweet fruit. Not a very great depth or complexity, all in all a rather uninteresting glass. Have not tasted this producer before, but this wine really …
[Read more...] about Cedric Bouchard, Roses de Jeanne – Rose 2004
The Dom Perignon 1990 - very nice and ready to drink. I have seen big bottle variation, and I somehow feel the DP 1990 never has fulfilled the promises it made when it just came on the market. This example showed good length and good complexity, but like several other bottles of this wine missing …
The Musigny 2002 from Vogue is a wonderful wine. The bouquet oozing with minereality and red coulis fruit. On the palate it shows very good length og power, with a fantastic minerality simmerring under the layers of red pinot fruit. It's less dark in the fruit than many other Musignys from Vogue, …
[Read more...] about Comte de Vogue, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2002
