Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Tuesday morning in NSG - harvest is moving on... although it has become relatively quiet in the vineyards. The 2026s are now in many cuveries and one thing is clear - very little juice - only 50% of the normal yield ... even 60% less or 70% below normal. The other word that springs to mind is …
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Sunday in NSG - harvest is moving on... although it has become relatively quiet in the vineyards. The harvest is not necessarily a time of hyper stress with many harvesters in each vineyard... It's more the combined effort of many teams populating the many different plots spread out all over …
Sunday in NSG - harvest is moving on ... although it has become relatively quiet in the vineyards. The harvest is not necessarily a time of hyper stress with many harvesters in each vineyard... It's more the combined effort of many teams populating the many different plots spread out all over …
Morning in NSG - still someone to start harvest next week! Burgundy is all about connections and business relationships... friendship and passion. I try to visit a lot of the same every year, expanding with a few new ones every year This year, however, I just missed out on Mark Haisma, the …
Morning in NSG - overcast and 20 degrees Celsius! The night between August 27th and 28th, the rain came to Burgundy... and quite an intense thunderstorm lasting quite some hours ... enough to invigorate the harvest in the Nuits-Saint-Georges area. The rain and thunder gave quite ample "downpour": …
