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Vineyard Insight

Terroir View: Hubert Lignier Clos de la Roche – a new cuvée

By Steen Öhman October 31, 2019 -

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

By Steen Öhman October 9, 2019 - 4 Comments

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

By Steen Öhman September 4, 2019 - Leave a Comment

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

By Steen Öhman August 21, 2019 - Leave a Comment

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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Terroir View: Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Fixin Les Crais

By Steen Öhman December 29, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Another exciting vineyard of Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet is the Fixin Les Crais a vineyard that produce one of the most delightful village wines of Fixin. As with the other Berthaut-Gerbet wines the Fixin Les Crais have improved a lot within the last few years as Amélie Berthaut has taken over the …

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French cellar talk

  • Egrappage: Destemming
  • Éraflage : Destalking
  • Foulage: Crushing or stirring
  • Encuvage: Vatting
  • Pigeage: Cap Punching down
  • Remontage: Pumping Over
  • Fermentation Alcoolique: Alcoholic Fermentation
  • Ecoulage: Running off
  • Décuvage: Devatting
  • Pressurage: Pressing
  • Assemblage: Blending
  • Débourbage: Must Settling
  • Bourbes: Lies (general translation)
  • Fermentation Malolactique: Malolactic Fermentation
  • Soutirage: Racking
  • Sulfitage: Sulphiting
  • Elevage: Maturing
  • Collage: Fining
  • Filtration: Filtration
  • Mise en bouteilles: Bottling

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