The harvest 2024 will start during the next few days ... i.e. around September 10th. In Côte de Nuits it will most likely be focused on a start September 16th. Major estates like Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair and Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüe will start in this week. While harvest timing is …
Vins d'Émotion
Tasting is believing? but try to understand
Tasting red Burgundies made without oak is a relatively new thing for me … at least in the top-end level - 1er cru and up!. I have tasted oak-based wines in 25 years and more so please bear with me here. I need to learn and first and foremost taste more .., before I get my head around this as …
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Marshall a super exciting new estate
There are quite a few new estates created in Burgundy every year, but somehow the Domaine Marshall in Nuits-Saint-Georges is the most exiting newcomer in years. Domaine Marshall has the vineyards ... good 1er crus ... Domaine Marshall is uncompromised with an ambitious attitude to viticulture …
Tasting the Marthe Henry 2023 reds
This is part two about the 2023s from Marthe Henry ... you can see the evaluation of the Marthe Henry 2023 whites here. To see the start of her story, the article from my first visit to Marthe Henry is here. A bit about the wines One of the things that is special about the wines from …
Tasting the Marthe Henry 2023 whites
"A wine like the Bourgogne Blanc Monatine 2017 has remarkable energy and zen-like balance with an extraordinary mineral depth and joie de vivre that even many grand crus in Burgundy miss: truly a vin d'émotion." This quote was part of my motivation for awarding Marthe Henry Boillot the "Flavour …