The Côte de Nuits Villages appellation offers lovely wines - but it is rather confusingly a mix of villages where some are fully, and some only partly, a "part" of the appellation. While this has worked for decades, a more logical organisation would perhaps strengthen the marketing point of …
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Terroir View: Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche – a new cuvée
Domaine Hubert Lignier was one of first estates I visited when I began my quest to understand Burgundy. This was back in the late 1990s when Romain Lignier was making truly magnificent wines at Domaine Hubert Lignier. Sadly Romain passed away in an untimely fashion in 2004 and, while the years …
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Comte Armand Clos des Epeneaux – the Monopole
Pommard is an appellation of clos (walled vineyards) and quite a few monopoles. While the definitions of clos and monopole are pretty clear and straightforward, the vineyards in Pommard sometimes take on somewhat strange permutations to attain these vaunted distinctions. A Wineghog reader …
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Montre-Cul at the northern end of Burgundy
One of the few lieu-dit vineyards in the central Dijon area is Montre-Cul, or Montrecul, located just at the city limit of Dijon. On the cadastre maps the vineyard is called En Montre-Cul, and it is both an adorable and somewhat "notorious" label. The red dot on the map above shows En Montre-Cul …
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Puligny Les Enseignères: Just below the grands crus
Puligny Montrachet Les Enseignères caught my attention back in the mid-1990s when Coche-Dury acquired a piece of this now-illustrious village vineyard. Les Enseignères is, for non-collectors, a relatively unknown vineyard, located just below Bienvenue-Batard-Montrachet. While producing tremendous …
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