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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Domaine Grivot has improved quality tremendously over the last 5 to 10 years, optimizing and improving the wines little by little each year. The wines are made with a lighter hand with the oak less present in the young wines, and since 2009 the micro details and the purity of the wines have been …
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The Clos de Vougeot 2014 from Jean-Marc Millot is a delightful glass. The nose is bursting with red fruits - delicate and expressive with an underlying earthy minerality. On the palate very fresh and juicy for a Clos de Vougeot - fine acidity - very pure and transparent. This is not a big and dense …
The Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2009 is another top Clos de Vougeot ... surprisingly balanced for this rather hot and ripe year. The nose is very vinous with ripe fruit - expressive and quite forward for the age and the vintage. On the palate rich, weighty with a long quite firmly structured finish. I …
[Read more...] about Chateau de la Tour Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 2009
The Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2012 is still very young with the oak slightly forward in the bouquet. The fruit is rich and ample in the nose - dense yet some transparency under the quite forward oak. On the palate silky fruit - quite firmly structured by the tannins. It's a big, vinous and muscular wine …
[Read more...] about Chateau de la Tour Clos de Vougeot Vieilles Vignes 2012
The Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2013 is a big but surprisingly refined effort without the slight roughness many 2013s have. In the nose pure ripe fruits - oak well integrated - with a nice focus and transparency. On the palate, rich almost voluptous with a lovely silky mid-palate fruit. The 2013 acidity …
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