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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
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 …
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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
Domaine de Montille is one of my favourite producers on the Corton hill, even though its presence there dates back only to 2004. Etienne de Montille today produces two wines from the Corton vineyard - a Corton-Charlemagne produced from the Corton Pougets climat, and a red Corton from the …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine de Montille Corton Clos du Roi
Today I am starting on the most daunting project of them all - the mighty Corton hill. This unique and complex vineyard is a lifelong study, and presumably one would have to start all over in the midst of the project, as owners and vignerons would have changed. So, in reality, I will never …
This week I attended a tasting of red Corton; a rare thing, in Denmark at least. The tasting included 10 Cortons from five producers, all top-flight amongst the panoply of Corton producers. The purpose was to learn: learn about different parts of the Corton vineyards, learn about the …
[Read more...] about Corton, Corton, red Corton .. exploring the hill
