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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Amoureuses 2001 from Vogüé is starting to show some maturing notes and is drinking just beautifully. The bouquet offer fine red and dark fruits, notes of sous-bois brought forward by a fine limestone minerality. On the palate airy medium bodied fruit - cool and regal offering a both fresh and …
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The Amoureuses 2003 is rich - still youthful and dense. The bouquet offer rather warm fruit notes - not overripe - but still on the hot side of the Burgundian spectrum - if not more. On the palate rich even velvet fruit, relatively dark and dense with the powerful Amoureuses limistone minerality …
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Poetic ... I was thinking poetic on my way up the hill from Vougeot to Chambolle to taste the 2015s from Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé with winemaker Francois Millet. I tasted the 2015s before the malolactic fermentation in June 2016 and now I had the opportunity to taste these magnificent wines …
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Les Amoureuses is mythical and regardless of the producer always difficult to find. The most difficult to acquire seems to be the very rare bird from Domaine Georges Roumier - the 7th largest owner of this prestigious 1er cru. I have rarely tasted Les Amoueuses from Roumier .. but the ones I have …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Roumier Chambolle Musigny Les Amoureuses
Les Amoureuses …. a name signaling passion and desire. It’s one of the most sought after wines in Burgundy - indeed difficult to find despite a quite healthy production from the multiple owners and quite a few negociants that also produce this seductive Chambolle 1er cru. One of the top …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Mugnier Chambolle Musigny Les Amoureuses
