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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Domaine Méo-Camuzet has, as I opined last year, a special aura, and a special place in Burgundy as both a link to the old master Henri Jayer and a connection to the core of Vosne-Romanée history. For me, the 2019 vintage is an alignment with this history, and with the greatness of an estate that has …
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Some wines have tremendous hedonistic appeal - at least to me. One example is Chambolle-Musigny Les Feusselottes, a wine that combines refined detail with hedonistic generosity from relatively deep, ample soil. No one seems to express the joyful, hedonistic charms of Feusselottes better than …
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I have a soft spot for the wines from Mugneret-Gibourg. They are wines of pleasure and enjoyment, yet they still require some aging to reach their optimum complexity and hedonistic joyfulness. It's easy to mention the domaine's three grands crus as favourites. Yet it would be a grave error to …
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Being a wine journalist is a treat. One gets to meet a lot of nice vigneron(ne)s, and furthermore get to taste some of their best wines. This is good, but some tastings are programmed with more enthusiasm and higher expectations than others; after all, even journalists are human. The …
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Domaine Georges Glantenay is the second of two well-known Glantenay estates in Volnay, the other being Bernard and Thierry Glantenay, whom I visited in July 2019. Domaine Georges Glantenay is located quite high in the village, but also has a more visible shop in the very centre of Volnay just …
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