It's that time again - the time of nervous vignerons, the time of potential spring frost. On the night of March 26th and 27th 2026, and again 27th to 28th, frost hit parts of Burgundy - after causing damage in Chablis even earlier. There are no reports of serious damage in Côte de Nuits yet …
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Domaine Dubuet-Boillot tasting 2023
During my second visit to the Dubuet-Boillot Estate, I tasted the 2023 1er Crus and their Corton Grand Cru. I have great expectations for the future of this estate. Let's go! This is when wine becomes interesting and moves beyond normal tasting notes. A Boillot estate In 2016, Maxime …
Fixin Clos de la Perriére … the forgotten Téte de Cuvée – 2023
When I started out with Winehog, it was with a base in the vineyards and the mapping of the terroirs. So I took a start in the old classifications, to explore the terroirs, also to find the vineyards that might have lost some of their mojo, so to speak. In 1855 when Lavalle made his …
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Hadrien Brissaud – Testing the 2023s
I think Hadrien Brissaud still qualify as a new name in Burgundy and he definitely has a talent that he is trying to form and develop. He comes from the insurance business so he has perhaps a more academic view of winemaking... The link to the wine business nonetheless exists, as his family …
Domaine Dubuet-Boillot tasting 2022
I have great expectations for the Dubuet-Boillot estate, and it looks like the 2022 is fulfilling the promise shown in earlier vintages. The consistency seems to be better, where there was previously a bit of instability in some cuvées - the style and quality now seem more uniform. This is …