Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I now travel to Burgundy 5 to 6 times a year to taste wines from the best producers.
From each visit I produce an article with tasting notes and relevant informations about the producer and the vintage at hand.
Burgundy is all about knowing the good and right producers. Vintages are different, but in reality, it is almost always the same producers who make the good wines and the Vin d`emotion. They have the right vineyards and the talent to produce the wines. Vigneron: Benoit Chevallier - Benoit …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Benoit Chevallier – Tasting the 2025s
I already named Domaine Edouard Confuron Flavour of the Year in 2026, so naming another estate Flavour of the Year in 2026 would be a breach of protocol. So we need to jump into the future ... almost inspired by the very early harvest in 2026. So here we go ... Flavour of the Year 2027 Flavour …
[Read more...] about Flavour of the Year 2027 – Domaine Leovila
Nicolas Morin is a good wine producer, but also a somewhat untraditional vigneron. He works with very little sulphur... not that this is very untraditional these days ... but it becomes more unconventional ... as he has some quite rare .... or should I say unconventional terroirs in the very, very …
Some projects are both fascinating and much more complex than originally expected ... such a project is Château de la Commaraine. But this year Commaraine seems to be at the end of a long construction phase ... the winery is now with the Château in Pommard, and the two restaurants and the …
The next interesting 1er cru on the list is the Vosne-Romanée Beaux Mont of Domaine Jean-Grivot - one of the very best 1er crus of this fine estate. Grivot has a vast lineup of very, very good 1er crus and Grand Crus ... one of the most impressive in Vosne-Romanée and Burgundy as a whole. The …
[Read more...] about Domaine Jean-Grivot Vosne-Romanée Les Beaux Monts
