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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I have recently acquired two Zalto Bordeaux stems to compare with my current favourite red Burgundy glasses (Grassl and Riedel Sommelier). The reason is that the insightful and thoughtful Olivier Lamy is using these stems at his winery (mainly for tasting whites), and also for tasting wines in …
[Read more...] about Pondering Glasses: The Hedonism of Grassl vs Zalto
The 2022 vintage in many ways is back to normal - and back to volume - after frost destroyed much of the '21 vintage. To say that 2022 is without issues is perhaps an overstatement, but tasting the wines, one is left with a smile and a joyful mind. These are hedonistic wines, generous, and …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Leflaive – Tasting the 2022s
I have visited many wine growers over the years, and these days it takes a lot to truly surprise and thrill me. This is the unadorned truth of being a wine writer. But a few weeks back I was surprised and thrilled to my core by a young vigneron who is creating poetry and music with some …
This week I was planning a small yet, apparently, controversial expansion to the vin d'emotion scale to include the missing bottom end, meaning the wines I don't enjoy, or that are simply bad. This turned out to be highly charged. Calling a wine awful is clearly too much for delicate French …
Enough is enough. I'm tired of producers of average Burgundies charging extremely high prices. While wise producers like Joseph Drouhin have decided to lower prices significantly (15% in many cases - bravo!), others are apparently continuing the suicidal policy of increasing them even further. …
[Read more...] about Vins d’Emotion: It’s About Love, First and Foremost
