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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2010 Chevalier-Montrachet is a truly magnificent wine and one of the very best wines I have tasted from this legendary estate. The bouquet offer airy and cool white and yellow fruits infused with a filigree and deep stony minerality - notes of acacia and acacia blossom spiced with some fresh …
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The 2012 Musigny Vieilles Vigne from Domaine Comte de Vogüé is a magnificently delightful effort. The bouquet is crammed with layers of red and darkberry fruit - delikate notes of strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries and pomegranate - infused by a powerful and filigree minerality. On the palate …
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The Musigny 1990 from Roumier is a mind-blowing wine ... at age 25 it still needs 5 to 10 years more in the cellar to unfold completely. The bouquet is however quite open at this stage ... revealing more and more glimps of the tremendous complexity hiding underneath the intense and quite tightly …
La Romanee 2012 is slightly closed compared to the initial cask samples - but still a gorgeous and very intense wine. In the bouquet layers of juicy fruit – notes of raspberries, cherries, violets and peony rose – accentuated and infused by a very refined and powerful minerality. On the palate …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, La Romanee 2012
The Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2012 is a masterpiece. The bouquet is is bursting with layers of pure and crisp pinot fruit - notes of blueberries, red cherries, pomegranate - infused with the multidimensional minerality of the Musigny terroir. On the palate layers of rich and almost velvet fruit - …
[Read more...] about Comte de Vogue, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2012
