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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
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
To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. Comments and thoughts The list contains producers that regularly score an emotional rating, and they are ranked in three levels. I hope this proves useful; …
[Read more...] about Vins d’Emotion from Chassagne-Montrachet and St. Aubin (revised)
Burgundy is becoming increasingly complex ... as the structures are changing. Before, the Domaines were often focused in one appellation - now more and more are expanded into numerous appellations and areas. This complexity demands another view on the domaines as the wines from the domaines no …
In the North, in what I normally call the outskirts of Chablis, we find this interesting Bourgogne Èpineuil appelation. It's an area with argillaceous soils (Kimméridgien) just north east of the core of the Chablis appellation. This 2023 Bourgogne rouge from Dominique Gruhier has a lovely …
[Read more...] about Dominique Gruhier Bourgogne Èpineuil 2023
