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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. In this article I have assembled vignerons from the smaller, but still very exciting, appellations: Dijon, Marsannay, Fixin, Côte de Nuits villages, and Hautes Côtes …
[Read more...] about Vins d’Emotion from the Côte de Nuits – Off Piste
Moillard is an old Burgundian name, and Moillard-Grivot is the negociant brand of the former Moillard estate. The domaine was founded in 1850, and was an important player in Burgundy until 2005, when the Thomas Moillard part was sold to Domaine Dujac and Domaine de Montille. The negociant part, …
A bit more than two years ago, at the Grands Jours de Bourgogne in Marsannay, I had the pleasure of tasting the wines of Laurent Fournier for the first time. I was impressed to find fine energy and vivacity in his wines, and a hedonistic flair that I don't normally find in the wines from the …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Jean Fournier – tasting 2018
Burgundy is a magnificent place with tremendous wines, tasty food, beautiful countryside and villages to experience and enjoy. This is, however, a problem when on a wine-tasting trip. There are too many appointments and too little time to simply live and enjoy Burgundy, to indulge and float through …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet – tasting the 2018s
The Côte de Nuits Villages appellation offers lovely wines - but it is rather confusingly a mix of villages where some are fully, and some only partly, a "part" of the appellation. While this has worked for decades, a more logical organisation would perhaps strengthen the marketing point of …
