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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I have known Domaine de Montille for many years, and have tasted both the classical Montille style practised by Étienne's legendary father Hubert de Montille ... and the more accessible style of Brian Sieve, who has been cellarmaster for the last 15 years and currently is making the wines for …
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There are many new, high-quality producers in Burgundy, and one of these is Domaine Berthelemot, a large, relatively recent estate in Meursault. My colleague and friend Karine Chang (a wine agent mainly covering the Asian market) invited me to a tasting at Domaine Berthelemot to stimulate my …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Berthelemot: A View on 2022
The importance of elevage to the Hospices de Beaune wines is often overlooked, but in reality, quite a bit can be done to change and improve the Hospices' wines. I have been looking at the effects of elevage - the oak used (often the Hospices barrel), racking, barrel time, etc. - and this has led …
[Read more...] about Hospices de Beaune: Elevage by Jane Eyre
The importance of elevage to the Hospices de Beaune wines is often overlooked, but in reality quite a bit can be done to change and improve the Hospices' wines. I have been looking at the effects of elevage - the oak used (often the Hospices barrel), racking, barrel time, etc. - and this has led …
[Read more...] about Hospices de Beaune: Elevage by Michel Lafarge
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
