Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Winehog "Food for Thought" are my reflections on the core qualities of the wines we drink ... these are merely thoughts and reflections that I use when I try to understand and appreciate wines ... and I hope they can offer you a better insight in the qualities and potentials of the wines we …
[Read more...] about Winehog Food for Thought: Phenolic Ripeness
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 …
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 …
[Read more...] about Vin d’émotion – Burgundies of passion … 5 years on
This month, I had the pleasure of tasting old Burgundies back to 1923 from the magnificent cellar of Bouchard Pere et fils. It was a great tasting with only well-preserved and optimum bottles - for the vintage. The team of Frédéric Engerer of Domaine Artemis has done an outstanding job finding …
The 2013 vintage was an unlikely candidate for vintage of the moment or vin d'émotion when the wines were launched, as many of the reds were slightly or quite extracted and edgy. Many of them are now mature or close to full maturity. Both red and whites offer a gorgeous cool complexity of mature …
