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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2010s seems to continue to show well - and are still quite open. This is certainly the case with the La Romanée 2010 from Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. It's still floral, expressive and very effortless in it's presentation of refined layers f fruit and filigree minerality. It's a intense wine - …
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The Musigny 2015 could well be a legend in the making. It does offer a unique balance between seductive generosity and a vibrant freshness found in very few vintages. Some have mentioned the 1929 vintage in connection with the 2015s - and while I have tasted very few 1929s - let alone 1929 Musigny - …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé, Musigny 2015
The La Romanee 2010 is a magnificent effort combining the intensity, depth and transparency of the vintage with the filigree refinement of the great La Romanee terroir. The bouquet is offering deep and layered organic red fruit - intense with a firework of minerality and Vosne spices infused in the …
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The Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne 1993 is one of the best and most refined white Burgundies I have ever tasted. The nose is offering a fantastic and almost elusive complexity - white and yellow fruit, delicate nuances of hazelnuts, gunpowder, flint and a very filigree minerality. Matured but still …
[Read more...] about J.-F. Coche-Dury, Corton-Charlemagne 1993
The 2007 Batard-Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is a sensational wine - and among the best white Burgundies I have tasted. The bouquet is crammed with orchard fruits - very intense but still cool, crisp and airy with a beautiful supporting mineral note. It's young but the complexity is …
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