It is always a treat and a pleasure to do the first tasting of Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia ... a tasting that normally is done in March or April. It's a first taste ... normally followed by the full and normal tasting either before or just after the bottling. I like the two tastings as they …
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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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Visit to Domaine Benoit Chevallier – Tasting the 2023s
Burgundy is all about knowing the good and right producers. Vintages are different, but in reality, it is almost always the same producers who make the good wines and the Vin d`emotion. They have the right vineyards and the talent to produce the wines. I will therefore focus more on the producers …
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Château de la Commaraine … moving on
Some projects are both fascinating and much more complex than originally expected ... such a project is Château de la Commaraine. I will reference a part of the intro from my article about Commaraine ... just to set the scene ... Background Pommard has a classical historic ambiance with …
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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