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.
Tasting the 2024 vintage has been both enduring and encouraging on the red side ... not a great vintage ... but a vintage that can provide lovely drinking for those who are careful and study the data and notes well. The whites, however, is a different picture ... check the last part of the …
[Read more...] about Visit to Marchand-Tawse – Tasting the 2024s
The 2024 vintage, with the low alcohol and the lovely transparent and airy fruit, is a wonderful treat. The pheenolics are ripe ... just ripe ... with a cool note. Most of the wines have almost optimal phenolics ... close to... and this is in my view a tremendous opportunity for getting a great …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Roulot – Tasting the 2024s
Finally, I had the opportunity to visit Céline Fontaine-Gagnard, the talented vigneron at Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard. Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard was founded by Laurence Gagnard - the daughter of Jacques and Marie-Josèphe Gagnard - and her husband Richard Fontaine in 1985. Today Céline Gagnard is …
[Read more...] about Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard tasting the 2024s
La Pocra is a new summer wine from Ledy vins. Pocra means "clay on hands", referring to the fact that this might be a entry level wine ... but it is still very much hand-picked and hand-made like all the other wines from Aurélie at Ledy vins. Ledy vins "La Pocra" 2025 La Pocra is a Pinot …
There are many small and exciting estates in Burgundy, and sometimes, I am thrown head over heels into tastings in these small estates. It's fine, I rather enjoy this, but when I come back to NSG, I often remember all the things I should have asked about and documented. In this case, I did not …
[Read more...] about Maison Géraldine Louise – an amphorae to remember
