I have made it my "calling" to discover emotional wines for you to seek out and enjoy in your personal hedonistic quest. These vins d'émotion have nerve, tension, and energy behind their hedonistic intensity. I hope they evoke your passion: the passion to explore and the passion to have another …
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Vins d’Emotion from Gevrey-Chambertin
To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. I am starting with Gevrey-Chambertin, meaning the producers are located in that town. Comments and thoughts The list contains producers that regularly score …
2020: Cool in a Hot Year – Elaborated
The 2020 vintage is a serious and somewhat scary beast - to me at least- coming as it does after the outstandingly great red 2019s. Don't get me wrong: I think the 2020s are very, very good, and sometimes even better than the 2019s. It's seemingly a cooler year, and a vintage that often talks to …
Indifference or Disgust
I have followed Burgundy wines closely since the early 1990s - almost 30 years -and during this period I have seen a vast improvement in their quality on average. When I began my Burgundy quest, 80% of randomly selected Burgundies were either poor, som downright disgusting, or flawed, without a …
Harvest 2021 – day 0
There's now approximately one week to the start of harvest, and Domaine P.-O. Garcia in Nuits-Saint-Georges is still adjusting his harvest plan while following the grapes' maturation closely. Yesterday we were in the vineyards north of Nuits-Saint-Georges to collect samples for a lab test of key …