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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
One rarely taste four evenly matched grand crus from the top end on a saturday afternoon. This was nevertheles the case today when Clos de Tart, Bonnes Mares from Vogüé and Roumier were opened with the Chambertin from Trapet. All wines were from the 2013 vintage .. young - surprisingly open and …
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Maison Camille Giroud is one of the best adresses for affordable wines of high quality. This is mainly due to the talented winemaker and manager David Croix, who has taken Camille Giroud from traditional old school Burgundies to classic contemporary Burgundies within his 15 years as head of the wine …
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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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Griotte-Chambertin has a special place in my Burgundy heart - as it was one of the first Grand Crus I acquired when I began to collect Burgundies around 1990. I adore a good Griotte as it often seems to offer both drinkability and delicate complexity not often found in a Gevrey - aside form the …
On my June trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure of tasting the 2015s from Domaine du Clos Frantin - a brand/estate within the Maison Albert Bichot group. Domaine du Clos Frantin is the top brand of Bichot and makes the top reds from Cote de Nuits, the winemaker is the talented Cyrille …
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