Now we have the label for the exciting new estate in Meursault - Marthe Henry Boillot - just from the printer. I visited Marthe for the first time in June 2018 and have actually been waiting to see the label - that will present and sell these delightful and promising wines. Here you can …
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The 2018s the great, the fine, and the potentially ugly
I am just back from Burgundy, tasting lineups of 2018 wines. A eventful and lovely trip - the culinary side was excellent, as were most of the tastings. Yet I also found some of the 2018s problematic from normally very competent producers - indicating that 2018 was indeed a difficult year for …
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New wines … a lovely experience … Wines for sampling
I have now started to review the incoming wines on Winehog, and to my great pleasure the quality of the wines received for tasting is actually surprisingly good. First very pleasent surprise was from VINS DIVINS - Export agent in BEAUNE. Cara and Michael Stephens delivered some love wines from …
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Get your Wine on Winehog
New is good! .. and I do love the taste of fresh Pinot or Chardonnay. I have therefore decided to make a quite big update to Winehog, hopefully to get a bigger flow of new wines through the tasting table - to get the inspiration and vivid life of new producers filling the Riedels and …
As we learn … and get better wines – a 2018 perspective
The 2018 vintage is by many already getting acclaimed and by some compared to the 1947 vintage ... as one of the solar and "great" vintages. This can seem quite premature, as the wines in some places still are completing the malolactic fermentation. That being said - it is still interesting …
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