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In Denmark there have been some discussions about wines low sulphur wines - will they keep or are they somehow fragile and fall apart when they are stored for 5 to 10 years. I must admit that I have rarely seen problems with bottles from my own cellar, but I have heard about problems from other …
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Next and above Les Terrasses one find Les Vallerots - a 0.5 ha plot on the top of the slope. Wines planted in 1984 - so quite a lot older. This is a more substantial wine but still with a clear reference to the limestony soil. It's deeper and more powerful than the Les Terrasses de Vallerots - with …
[Read more...] about Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont, Nuits-St-Georges Les Vallerots 2015
Next up one of the most exiting wines in the portfolio - the Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Terrasses de Vallerots - located above Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Vaucrains. It's a 2 ha parcel planted on terrasses in 2001 - on soil not planted with wines after the phylloxera epidemic. Bertrand Machard de Gramont …
