Winehog - Burgundy 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.
I have known the Cacheux wines for many years, and have tasted vintages back to the 1990s, including quite recently a surprisingly delightful Vosne-Romanée Croix Rameau 1999 that really intrigued me. I also tasted the Cacheux wines at the Grand Jours de Bourgogne in 2018, and was hoping to return …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Jacques Cacheux – tasting the 2018s
On my trip to Burgundy in March, before you-know-what, I had the pleasure of visiting Domaine Moron-Garcia in Nuits-Saint-Georges to taste the 2019 wines from cask. Let me just say, the 2019s from Matthieu Moron and Pierre-Oliver Garcia are truly lovely: magnificent, refined, delicate and …
[Read more...] about Domaine Moron-Garcia – tasting the 2019s from cask
Traditions are to be cherished, and these emotional anchors are important in the current world of chaos and covid. We are indeed living in a changing world, and as we try to adapt, the delightful sensation of a sip of Clos des Boucheres is is a joyful, hedonistic blessing one should …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Roulot – tasting the 2018s
A new rising star! This is how people like me - wine journalists - write in a moment of excitement and sometimes even ill-hidden self-promotion. The truth is, however, that this vigneron is not that well-known, but presumably cherished by many private clients in France. So OK: for me, a …
COVID-19 Day 7 in the Winehog burrow in Denmark: I'm working pretty normally, and the situation is more a mental challenge so far, not yet really imposing a true change in lifestyle. In other words, I should not complain. And I do have the 2018 and adorable 2019 Burgundies to talk about. There …
[Read more...] about First impressions of Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé 2019s
