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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I've returned to Domaine Ponsot to taste the 2022s with Alexandre Abel, the estate's talented winemaker. Visiting Domaine Ponsot is always a special treat, if one understands and appreciates the Ponsot wines. Tasting wine is, however, a question of timing and palate (one's preferences). Despite …
[Read more...] about Domaine Ponsot: 2022s Continue to Shine
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I have followed Philippe Pacalet's wines since his first vintage almost 20 years ago. I furthermore followed the wines he made at Domaine Prieure-Roch before he began his own endeavour. I enjoy Pacalet's wines, and they almost always provide (for me at …
[Read more...] about Visit to Philippe Pacalet – Tasting the 2022s from Cask
I have followed Philippe Pacalet's wines since his first vintage almost 20 years ago. I furthermore followed the wines he made at Domaine Prieure-Roch before he began his own endeavour. I enjoy Pacalet's wines, and they almost always provide - for me at least - an essential hedonistic joy, …
[Read more...] about Visit to Philippe Pacalet – Tasting the 2021s from Cask
La Pousse d'Or occupies a strange blind spot in my Burgundian mind, as the greatness of its historic efforts and its rebuilding under Patrick Landanger was just getting under way when I began to collect Burgundies in the mid- to late-1990s. I never really knew the old estate management under …
[Read more...] about Domaine de la Pousse d’Or: The Past Embraces the Future
To good beginnings! When I began collecting Burgundies in the early 1990s, I started out by buying some Ponsot wines, including the 1988 Clos de la Roche, which was already regarded as one of the top cuvées in Burgundy. I followed that with some 1990 Griottes-Chambertin. Those wines are long gone, …
