Les Aligoteurs is a (sort of) annual event held by the rapidly growing organization with the purpose of promoting aligoté and expanding its acceptance, understanding, and consumption. This is a vivid and lively organization with plenty of members showing the will to work hard and improve. The …
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2022: Great? Or Challenging…
The comments were many and positive when the 2022 grapes were harvested: very healthy fruit, and a lot of it. The abundance in some places filled the cellar to the brim, yet soon some vignerons noticed that all was not always normal. Early malolactic fermentation In some cellars …
Points it is! Points forever!
Last fall, I put the 100-point wine-rating scale to the test and opened its use to discussion. Do vignerons want it? And perhaps more importantly, do Winehog readers want a points score on the wines? The vignerons The results of my survey show the vignerons are ambivalent; most do not feel …
Winehog Survey: 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020?
Wine is personal; Burgundy is a matter of taste, occasion, and the company you are in when you drink it. I have nevertheless decided to run some survey questions on the Winehog Instagram page (currently 4,000 followers), and take the temperature of my friends there. These are simple surveys - …
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2019, 2020, and 2021
The 2019 vintage is a truly great year for red Burgundy, and the whites are also growing on me as time goes by. The '19s have a hedonistic flair in their details that makes them both complex and delicate, while both the reds and whites seduce you with gorgeous generosity. The 2020s are a …