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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Clos de la Roche 2004 from Rousseau is a surprisingly lightfooted and delightful effort for the vintage. Quite light in color with lovely red organic fruit in the nose - offering fine notes of cherries and cherry stones. On the palate lightfooted and quite delicate with lovely red fruit - quite …
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The Dujac Clos Saint Denis 1999 is a refined effort for the vintage. In the nose lovely red berry fruit infused with a filigree and slightly floral minerality ... delicate and forward with some charming hints of sous-bois. On the palate layers of forward and refined red fruit .. still some youthful …
The Lignier Clos de la Roche 1996 is a magnificent effort and is now fulfilling the great promise it showed in its youth. In the nose layers of red and dark berry fruit infused with delicate sous-bois notes, hints of truffle and a deep earthy minerality. On the palate layers of airy fruit ... a big …
The Morey-Saint-Denis Clos de la Bussiere 2012 from Roumier is delightfully forward and surprisingly accessible. The bouquet offer both red and dark fruits .. very open and extrovert for a young Roumier ... transparent with a lovely earthy minerality. On the palate rich and quite weighty with some …
[Read more...] about Domaine Georges Roumier, Morey Clos de la Bussiere 2012
Dujac have a special place in my Burgundy heart .... as it was one of the first estates I ever visited in Burgundy. I have followed Dujac in many years and while the quality always has been very high - I think the recent vintages are even a notch better. Photo: Alec Seysses pondering the …
[Read more...] about Visit – tasting of the 2013s from Domaine Dujac
