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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2019 vintage appears to have been a big and successful year for the Clos de Vougeot, despite the year's warm underlying character. It was quite a hot year, and the vines' location in the Clos de Vougeot can in some cases decide the outcome for the producer: good, great, big and/or …
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It is consistently a treat to visit Domaine Mugnier, and an hour with Frédéric Mugnier always leaves one thoughtful. Tasting wines here from a year like 2019 can easily leave one free of worries and intoxicated by the sheer beauty and complexity of the vintage - they are that good, despite …
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Domaine Chicotot is one of the upcoming estates in Nuits-Saint-Georges, following the tremendous work in the vineyards done by the family's newest generation in the form of son Clément. The wines are still a bit old-school NSG - meaning relatively dark and requiring some time before they begin to …
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Jérémy Recchione's labels attract attention and focus - and so do the wines. They started out in 2017 as "regular" organic wines with little sulphur, but evolved further in 2018 and 2019 into wines made and bottled without sulphur. All that is to say that, if the 2017s from Jérémy Recchione are …
One of the surprises in my first week of tastings was the visit to Mark Haisma in Gilly-les-Citeaux. It comes as no surprise that Mark Haisma has a strong Australian influence - in the best sense of the term. He is informal and appears very straightforward, although one should not mistake this …
