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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Vosne-Romanee Les Chaumes is a large 1er cru, and while its well know the quality produced from this vineyard is still rather mixed. As new generations take over - more and more fine examples of Les Chaumes does however reach the market. One of the best I have tasted recently is the 2015 from …
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Griotte-Chambertin has a special place in my Burgundy heart - as it was one of the first Grand Crus I acquired when I began to collect Burgundies around 1990. I adore a good Griotte as it often seems to offer both drinkability and delicate complexity not often found in a Gevrey - aside form the …
There are a lot of interesting terroirs in the Vosne-Romanee appellation itself and in the twillight zone between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanee. This area is somewhat overlooked, but as the new generations of vignerons take on these terroirs, there are very fine wines to find from these …
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The Vosne-Romanee appellation is famous for it's old grand cru monopoles - Romanee-Conti and La Romanee. There are however other monopoles in Vosne-Romanee, and while La Tâche and La Grande Rue are prominent monopoles today - they are in fact relatively new as they were formed in the 1930s. There …
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The two greatest vineyards of the Gevrey-Chambertin appellations is without doubt Le Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Bèze ... although I adore Ruchottes Chambertin for hedonistic reasons purely. One could even argue that Le Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Bèze in fact is one vineyard, and it …
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