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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Exciting news from Vosne-Romanée: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair will expand, with 2.65 hectares of new plots in prominent vineyards. Louis-Michel Liger-Belair will get his first plots in Grands Echezeaux, Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts, La Croix Rameau and Aux Reas. Furthermore, the estate is …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Expanding with New Vineyards
Burgundy is complex, and delicious wines are made almost every year - as are indifferent and even awful ones. While this statement is axiomatic, the difficulties of the 2020 vintage are unique, and it takes some experience - and a lot of tasting - to comprehend it. What seems fine on the …
[Read more...] about 2020 – The fine, the good, and the ugly
Just back from tasting the 2019s at Domaine Dujac with Jeremy Seysses - a magnificent tour of this delightful vintage, and a treat to taste the bottled wines. The trip from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Morey-Saint-Denis was rainy, to say the least (raining hogs and pigs), and Brompton was both dirty …
Pierre-Olivier Garcia of Domaine Moron-Garcia is continuing to develop his viticulture and his baie-par-baie vinification concept. I have followed his work in the vineyards and seen the progress over the last four months. The vines have finished flowering, so it's (roughly) 80-100 days until …
[Read more...] about P.-O. Garcia Viticulture – NSG Les Charmois
Charles Lachaux of Vosne-Romanée's Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux is continuing to develop his viticulture. I have followed Lachaux's vineyard Les Procès in Nuits-Saint-Georges throughout this year, watching its development and his techniques as we move towards harvest. Now we have reached flowering in …
