This week I had the opportunity to taste a large selection of the 2015s from Bouchard Pere et Fils. The Danish importer of Bouchard, Eric Sorensen and the Export Manager Maisons et Domaines Henriot, Victor Pepin, also this year joined forces to present the new vintage by showing a wide and …
Chambertin-Clos de Bèze
Visit Domaine Duroché – tasting of the 2015s from cask
The mysterious world of Gevrey-Chambertin - the reemerging appellation. I got off on the wrong foot with Gevrey-Chambertin back in the 1990s ... buying and tasting extracted, concentrated and or decade-macerated wines. Back in the days where many of these wines tasted more like a Bordeaux with the …
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Domaine Prieure-Roch, Chambertin Clos de Bezé 2008
The Chambertin Clos de Bezé 2008 from Prieure Roch is a very vibrant, expressive and energetic wine. The bouquet is bursting with red fruit - spiced with allspice, cinnamon - and backed by a quite intense minerality. On the palate juicy, vibrant with a quite generous mid-palate fruit. It's like many …
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Terroir Insight: Faiveley Clos de Bèze Les Ouvrées Rodin
The two greatest vineyards of the Gevrey-Chambertin appellations is without doubt Le Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Bèze ... although I adore Ruchottes Chambertin for hedonistic reasons purely. One could even argue that Le Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Bèze in fact is one vineyard, and it …
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Visit Domaine Faiveley – tasting of the 2015 vintage
My June trip to Burgundy included my first visit to Domaine Faiveley - and I was generously received by Erwan Faiveley, the dynamic and ambitious leader of the Faiveley estates. Faiveley has improved a lot over the last decade or so under the management of Erwan Faiveley, and within the last 5 …
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