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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Moving up to the Meursault Genevrieres 2015 – a generous and refined wine for the vintage. The nose offer rich and quite cool fruit for the vintage – citrus and mineral infused – very detailed and filigree. On the palate, quite intense and rich – with a nice firm focusing minerality. Offer a lovely …
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The Charmes-Chambertin 2015 is a generous and velvet wine. The nose is bursting with layers of red and ripe fruit. On the palate it's very generous with ripe and sweet predominantly red fruit .. a very charming and seductive wine .. balanced with a nice freshness but lacking a bit of the vibrant …
[Read more...] about Domaine Dujac, Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes 2015
I was doing a education session about Pommard with a private client, and he opened the the Pommard Epenots 2010 from Lucien Le Moine to accompany our talk about the Pommard and Volnay appellations - see more about the Winehog Education Sessions here. This wine is a perfect illustration of how …
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The 2013 Echezeaux from Domaine Meo-Camuzet is a quite vivid and energetic wine. It comes from the terroir - Rouges du Bas - located in the top part of Echezeaux - hence a relatively light and mineral driven Echezeux. The nose offer plenty of cool fruit - red and dark berries and a outgoing …
The Chambolle La Combe d'Orveaux 2014 is one of the most minerally charged wines I have tasted this year. The nose is quite closed compared to the other Clavelier 1er crus from 2014 and the dominant element is currently the strong limestone minerality from the fine plots just south of and above Les …
[Read more...] about Bruno Clavelier, Chambolle Musigny La Combe d’Orveaux 2014
