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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The last wine produced is the Bourgogne Aligoté - made from a "parcel" located on the "Colline de Vergy" in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, at the foot of the ruins of the Abbaye de Saint-Vivant. It's planted on a clay and limestone soil, rich in marl. This is a adorable Aligoté - so pure and …
[Read more...] about Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont, Aligote 2015
The 2014 Bourgogne Blanc from Domaine Tessier offer tremendous value. The nose is complex and vibrant for this level with pure white orchard fruits - citrus infused with a fine minerality. On the palate lovly focus and minerality for a generic Bourgogne .. This could easily be mistaken for a good …
[Read more...] about Domaine Tessier, Bourgogne Blanc “Champ-Perrier” 2014
Grivelet is for various reasons a quite notorius estate in Burgundian history .. but lets focus at the wine at hand - a Vosne-Romanée village 1961. It's a fully mature wine in good conditions - a slight metallic note after some time in the glass does nevertheless suggest it's a bit past it's peak. …
The Nicolas Faure Bourgogne Les Argillieres 2014 is a gorgeous wine ... third time I taste this wine .. and it's one of the best Bourgogne rouges I have ever tasted. The nose is offering organic fruit very floral - whole cluster and relatively low SO2. It's bursting with red and dark forest …
[Read more...] about Domaine Nicolas Faure, Bourgogne Aux Argillieres 2014
The Cote de Nuits Village "Aux Faulques" is made from a vineyard located in Comblanchien just south of Premeaux i.e. south of Nuits-Saint-Georges. This is a lovely and juicy wine with plenty of energy and a very interesting expression of terroir for this level. The nose offer lovely red - sweet red …
[Read more...] about Jean-Marc Millot, Cote de Nuits Village “Aux Faulques” 2014
