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Corton Charlemagne
Visit Joseph Drouhin – tasting the white 2017s from cask
Travelling Burgundy - I do taste a lot of good wines and meet a lot of talented and great people ... from Meurilly on the Côte to the outskirts Beaune, from a diminutive cellars to the Drouhin facilities, from Nicolas Faure to Veronique Drouhin. Different worlds one could say ... yet in the end …
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Visit Domaine Jean Chartron – tasting the 2017s from cask
Puligny-Montrachet should somehow represent the pinnacle of white Burgundy - but during the last one or two decades the producers of Puligny have been seriously challenged by estates from other appellations. Things are however changing, and new talented estates appear and old prominent estates …
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Bouchard Pere et Fils, Corton Charlemagne 1990
The Corton Charlemagne 1990 is now almost fully mature, but still fresh and very vivacious. The nose offer hazelnuts, hints of Belle de boskoob - intensely mineral still with a bit of citrus note. On the palate, generous, intense and mineral driven, fruit still energetic with a slightly creamy …
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Philippe Pacalet, Corton Charlemagne 2011
The Philippe Pacalet whites need time to unfold and blossom - especially the Corton-Charlemagne. The 2011 tasted recently is now beginng to show, and I must say this is one of the better 2011 whites I have tasted recently - a wine with a fine future ahead of it. The nose is now beyond the exotic …
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