Domaine Soyer is just starting ... or might I say restarting the estate with a new generation. Julie Soyer is the daughter of Laurent Soyer, who until 2023 was producing the wines at Domaine Soyer ... but now has left the wine production to his daughter Julie. The vineyards are the same, but the …
Nuits Saint Georges Aux Herbues
Vins d’Emotion from Nuits-Saint-Georges – (update July 2026)
I have decided to update the producer lists to make it easier to find producers with a true vin d`émotion potential. Some producers make a few emotional wines, and the rest are more tedious, and I have tried to include this in lists - hence some producers can occur in two categories .. tedious …
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The Roses of Vosne-Romanée – Tasting Domaine Jean-Pierre Guyon’s 2024s
Jean-Pierre Guyon is a man of action and change, and with the 2023 and 2024 vintages, new leaps have been taken to ensure further progress. First, Guyon started using oaks with a very light toast and was looking to decrease the use of sulphur, and then, he began a version of Baie-par-Baie …
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Domaine Soyer – out in the open
There are many domains in Burgundy ... some unknown to the international market, and some completely unknown, mainly selling grapes to the big negociants. When a new generation takes over on these domains it's quite often that this will lead to a new direction with the production and sale of …
Domaine Laurent Père Et Fils 2023
Back in the early 1990s Dominique Laurent became known for producing wines with 200% new oak ... a talk of town in Copenhagen, and even though the rather brutal handling of the juice seemed to be offputting ... the wines actually often turned out surprisingly good after some time after …