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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I like the wines from Domaine Sylvain Dussort, and the 2023s are really showing well. Anne-Caroline is gradually taking over the estate with some backing from her father. She is a tough lady, and she is making very good wines .... always a treat to visit at this estate located on the other side …
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Sometimes, the wine world throws you a curveball which set the wines and Burgundy in a slightly different light. The visit was Alvina Pernot - the granddaughter of Paul Pernot in Puligny-Montrachet, a relatively new estate, it was started in 2018 - still building experience and taking over more …
I tasted the 2023s from Roulot already in April 2025, and as always some wines were more ready to recieve a visit at this stage ... others clearly had a more reductive day. I now had the chance to retaste the portfolio ... most showed more or less the same (unchanged review) whike a few needed a …
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I have long been trying to increase the focus of the articles ... i.e. mainly writing about the best and most interesting wines. This means that some of the wines are left out ... as these are not the ones that I firsthand recommend. As Burgundies are getting more and more expensive ... the …
A visit to Antoine de la Bigne at La Pierre Ronde is always a treat. Antoine might not have the greatest of terroirs, and while his wines are great in many ways, they are not shouting and pushing this. They are subtle and delicate with an unusual intellectual stance. The La Pierre Ronde wines …
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