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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I was back on the hill just below l'Abbaye de Saint-Vivant de Vergy to visit Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont and its owner Axelle Machard de Gramont. On the program was tasting the 2018s, along with a quick sample of some 2019s. So let's get to the point! A bit of background …
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I have for many years followed German wines - and especially the Mosel valley has had a stronghold in my heart. Yes, even hogs and journalists have one. In recent years this interest have been revived, as I find some of the new drier wines from the Mosel region invigorating. Weingut Kirsten is …
Weingüter Wegeler is one of the proud owners of the unique Bernkasteler Doctor vineyard in Mosel. Wegeler each year produce a lineup of spectacular wines from this fine and very mineralic vineyard located just above the village of Bernkastel. The Doctor vineyard is in my view unique in both …
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The wines of Jürgen Von der Mark are to be honest amongst my new favourites - as wines for pure enjoyment and pleasure. Germany is a bit outside my home turf ... but an old passion and pleasure of mine, and I really has taken a new and somewhat different interest to German wines - since I …
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Readers will know that I have a strong passion for German Riesling wines .. a passion that dates back to the early 1990s. I was therefore thrilled when I had the possibility to meet one of the new and upcoming stars of Rheingau Eva Fricke in Copenhagen. So this weeks WotW are from Rheingau …
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