Global warming is an increasing problem in Burgundy and recent vintages are considered to be warm or even hot seen from a historic perspective. The increasing ripeness sets a stronger focus on energy: a sense of lightness and liveliness. The French expression a "vin léger” encompasses many of the …
Visit to Mark Haisma – Tasting the 2023 Reds
Mark Haisma's winery is in a new business park in Gilly-les-Citeaux, the same one that houses the prominent Domaine Laurent Ponsot. I have repeated this many times, but while these new buildings are practical they are also quite ugly - aside from the Laurent Ponsot estate and the Rousseau and Dujac …
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Visit to Domaine d’Eugénie – Tasting the 2023s
Burgundy in the wintertime can be as gloomy as a poor vintage of Nuits-Saint-Georges served too hot to enhance the overly extracted misery. I should not complain, but some days do not call for the largest smiles, however, last Thursday did actually induce both smile and laughter and some fruitful …
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Vin d’émotion – Burgundies of passion … 5 years on
In the fall of 2019, four wine geeks gathered in a small house in Vosne-Romanée. The group was made up of two vignerons: Mathieu Moron, Pierre-Olivier Garcia, an amateur vigneron and wine dealer, Tavs Ritzau and me the - the critic ... the Winehog, Steen Ohman. The first article about vin …
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Visit to Domaine Jérôme Galeyrand – Tasting the 2023s
Some articles write themselves, whereas others require more work and dedication. I love the wines from Jérôme Galeyrand, but it always takes me ages to write the articles .... the spelling the his name - the unknown vineyards. And then, to describe the greatness of these wines in a meaningful way …
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