To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. Comments and thoughts The list contains producers that regularly score an emotional rating, and they are ranked in three levels. I hope this proves useful; …
Vins d'Émotion
Vins d’Emotion from Meursault
To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. Comments and thoughts The list contains producers that regularly score an emotional rating, and they are ranked in three levels. I hope this proves …
Terroir View: Domaine Y. Clerget Volnay Santenots
Domaine Y. Clerget has gone from strength to strength over the last few years, really setting the bar high amongst Volnay and Pommard vignerons. The estate's Volnay Santenots 2020 really impressed me with its energy and verve - a magnificent wine. Let's take a quick look at the Clerget …
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A Year Older, and Another Year Dumber
When I reach my birthday (57) I always tend to reflect for a moment (see above), to decide if I like what I see when I look at myself in the mirror. I will spare you my reflections on weight and the growing bald spot, and get to the wine point - the Burgundy point. In the ideal world of …
Domaine de la Pousse d’Or: The Past Embraces the Future
La Pousse d'Or occupies a strange blind spot in my Burgundian mind, as the greatness of its historic efforts and its rebuilding under Patrick Landanger was just getting under way when I began to collect Burgundies in the mid- to late-1990s. I never really knew the old estate management under …
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