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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
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 …
[Read more...] about Vins d’Emotion from Nuits-Saint-Georges – (update 2026)
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 …
[Read more...] about The Roses of Vosne-Romanée – Tasting Domaine Jean-Pierre Guyon’s 2024s
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 …
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 …
Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia is one of the estates that I follow closely, hence they are amongst the first visits in my initial round of 2023 vintage assessments. I did the harvest (or part of it anyway) at Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and therefore was able to follow the …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Pierre-Olivier Garcia – First Tasting of the 2023s from Cask
