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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Starting out with the Bourgogne Roncevie 2015 a delightful glass. Its produced in Gevrey-Chambertin and the yearly production is around 29000 bottles .. a healthy quantity. Slight reduction (prepared for bottling) on the nose currently but lovely expressive fruit underneath .. fine berry notes and …
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The first wine – the Bourgogne Blanc 2015 – offered a lovely balance. Quite reduced with a cool white fruit for the vintage … nice vibrant freshness – lovely detail for this level, offering a nice detailed mid-palate fruit and a nice focused citrus infused finish with a nice touch of minerality. …
Maison Louis Latour is controvercial quality wise today - and the 1971 Chateau Corton Grancy sadly show some of the same characteristics of the current and recent vintages. It's sweet and forward in the bouquet showing evidense of the quite warm conditions in 1971 - the fruit is however still alive …
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While I like a lot of generic Burgundies I rarely taste a refined example - like the 2014 from Domaine Georges Noëllat. It's pure, cool, juicy and vibrant. The nose is brimming with cool red and darkish fruit - variations of cherries whith some hints of sweeter red fruit notes and some crushed …
[Read more...] about Domaine Georges Noëllat, Bourgogne 2014
The 2014 Bourgogne Rouge from Jean-Marc Millot is a delightful glass of pinot. The nose offer pure and quite detailed red berry fruit - transparent with fresh berry notes. On the palate fine juicy fruit - lightfooted and airy with a lovely vibrant mid-palate fruit - showing beautifully now - a true …
