Finding enjoyable and affordable wines these days is not an easy task, and I have therefore decided to make a new effort to highlight these wines and their alternatives. We need to do some soul searching ... and go back to the core ... Why are we drinking these wines? Thirst, lunch, dinner, a …
Flavour of the Year 2026 – Edouard Confuron
Sometimes we need to go back to basics ... Vosne Romanée ... and the classical yet updated style of Pinot Noir - a style that accommodates the modern wine making under global warming. During my tastings at Domaine Edouard Confuron's wines (first vintage was 2021), I have waited for and encouraged …
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Visit to Domaine Edouard Confuron – Tasting the 2024s
Edouard Confuron has rapidly become one of the new guys to follow in Vosne-Romanée. Edouard comes from the big and quite diverse Confuron family, as he is also a core part of the Confuron-Gindre estate together with his father. Edouard is working both with his father on the Confuron-Gindre …
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Drink, buy, taste or not
The Winehog has a diverse taste ... there are, however, regardless of style, things I do not like. Annoying and flawed wines is self-explantory ... Tedious wines ... boring or lack the energy and the transparency are other dislikes. I have pretty clear views ... regarding wine ... I will taste …
Indifferent, Tedious … or even anoying wines – no more!
This week I had lunch with an agent colleague in a nice restaurant in Côte de Beaune ... and while I have noticed price increases many times before ... I was sort of shocked to see the prices of a simple village Meursault now climbing up towards 90-100 EUR And yes, let's face it, the prices on …
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