There is a core list of famous estates that has set the bearings of the Winehog travel through Burgundy. One is Ponsot - Domaine Ponsot, and since 2017, still with the same illustrious and mysterious person behind these magnificent wines - Laurent Ponsot. I started my Burgundy journey back …
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Visit to Domaine d’Eugénie – Tasting the 2023s
Burgundy in the wintertime can be as gloomy as a poor vintage of Nuits-Saint-Georges served too hot to enhance the overly extracted misery. I should not complain, but some days do not call for the largest smiles, however, last Thursday did actually induce both smile and laughter and some fruitful …
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Visit to Domaine Y. Clerget – Tasting the 2023s
Thibaud Clerget is continuing to produce impressive and evermore refined wines. The 2023s are lovely but are battling with the sumptuous 2022s. He has expanded his estate with a big share of the former Domaine Régis Rossignol-Changarnier Estate that he divided with Arnaud Baillot. This expansion …
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Visit to Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet – Tasting the 2023s
I have followed Amélie Berthaut since the beginning when she started at the parents domains in Fixin and Vosne-Romanée. Amélie Berthaut has now taken over the vineyards of Domaine Berthaut in Fixin from her father's side, and two-thirds of her mother's family's vineyards from Domaine Gerbet in …
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Visit to Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia – First Tasting of the 2023s from Cask
Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia is one of the estates that I follow closely, hence they are amongst the first visits in my initial round of 2023 vintage assessments. I did the harvest (or part of it anyway) at Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and therefore was able to follow the …
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