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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2024 vintage, with the low alcohol and the lovely transparent and airy fruit, is a wonderful treat. The pheenolics are ripe ... just ripe ... with a cool note. Most of the wines have almost optimal phenolics ... close to... and this is in my view a tremendous opportunity for getting a great …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Roulot – Tasting the 2024s
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 …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Roulot – a 2023 retaste
The 2023 vintage is tricky as the ripeness builds very fast at the end, causing many vignerons to have problems with overripe phenolics. To combat this eventuality, Domaine Roulot has increased the harvesting teams from 35 to 50 pickers a few years back, and this has given more degrees of freedom …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Roulot – Tasting the 2023s
I have known Domaine de Montille for many years, and have tasted both the classical Montille style practiced by Étienne's legendary father Hubert de Montille ... and the more accessible style of Brian Sieve who has been cellarmaster for the last 15 years and currently is making the wines for Étienne …
