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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Echezeaux 2007 from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is a lovely ballerina. The bouquet starts out as quite expressive with red berry fruit - quite perfumed notes of strawberries and raspberries - combined with some hints of mint/fennel and a earthy minerality. On the palate quite lightfooted with …
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The Willian Fevre Chablis Vaulorent 2010 is a brilliant Chablis. The bouquet is showing beautiul pure fruit - ripe notes of orchard fruits - with notes of honey, citrus finished with a stony minerality with elemnts of seashells. On the palate rich but cool fruit - fine midpalate weigth and intensity …
The Chambolle-Musigny village 1999 from Vogue is slowly but surely starting to show more expressive matured notes. In the bouquet more and more red fruits - raspberries with hints of sweet strawberries and gooseberries - still some tar and dark notes in the nose. On the palate fresh and quite crisp …
The Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 2010 from Domaine Ponsot is a sleeping beauty. The bouquet is quite closed revealing little of all the beautiful fruit that is crammed into this wine. The nose nevertheless offer some fine notes of strawberries, blue berries and pomegranate. The palate is more …
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The Puligny-Montrachet 2010 from Benjamin Leroux is a mixed bag of goodies. In the bouquet quite a stony minerality with white orchard fruits and a hint of citrus. On the palate quite finely balanced with a good focus. Very good medium weight fruit on the midpalate - and a nice quite long …
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