Just back from tasting the 2019s at Domaine Dujac with Jeremy Seysses - a magnificent tour of this delightful vintage, and a treat to taste the bottled wines. The trip from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Morey-Saint-Denis was rainy, to say the least (raining hogs and pigs), and Brompton was both dirty …
Chambolle Musigny
Visit to Domaine Georges Glantenay – tasting the 2019s
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. Georges Glantenay is a sister-and-brother joint venture, with Sarah in charge of sales and brother Guillaume in charge of viticulture …
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Domaine Georges Roumier Chambolle-Musigny Les Cras 2010
Roumier's Chambolle-Musigny Les Cras 2010 is showing magnificently. It's chock full of red fruit, fine, very delicate rose petals, and a slight, distant note of tar. The generous, perfumed nose of raspberries and hints of strawberries is staggeringly beautiful, as it's supported by the beginning of …
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Visit to Château de Charodon – tasting the 2019s
New? Something new? In my book, Château de Charodon with Louis Vallet is a new name on the Burgundy scene, although Vallet has long worked at different estates here - most recently at Domaine Pierre Bourée, his family's old domaine. However, he's turned the page and started a new negociant …
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Visit to Domaine Arlaud – tasting the bottled 2019s
Domaine Arlaud is producing some magnificent wines, and year by year the connoisseur's awareness of them increases. Arlaud is both organically and biodynamically certified, and despite the slowly but surely increasing renown of this estate, it is still somewhat under the radar. How long will …
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