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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
During my March 2017 trip to Burgundy I had the opportunity to visit Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé to taste the 2016 vintage from cask. I know the Vogüé wines very well, and they have been amongst my benchmark wines for 15 years .. i.e. the wines I like to taste every year to evaluate the …
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I love Chambolle-Musigny perhaps the most vibrant and sensual appellation ... While the Chambolle appellation is rather large the number of top end producers located in the village of Chambolle is rather limited, and somehow it's not often a bright new star is rising from this village. There …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight – Domaine Bertheau Chambolle Les Amoureuses
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 …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé, Les Amoureuses 2001
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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