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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Aligoté En Gerlieus is just as delicate and refined as when I tasted it from cask - cask and amphorae - in June last year. Crystal clear and airy, it is light-footed with a gorgeous core of light fennel and mineral notes. Absolutely effortless, it shows an elegant, slightly reductive note. It's …
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To simplify the search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. Note that wines marked with brackets [ ] will require years before they really show their hedonistic side. The list contains producers that regularly score …
[Read more...] about Vins d’Emotion from Nuits-Saint-Georges – (New added)
The Les Herbues 2017 (amongst friends "the Abuse") is a typical Faure wine: refined and light-footed, with uniquely fine-grained tannins extracted by his old vertical press in Meuilley. The nose is open, and showing medium heat (it was quite a hot year, but not that hot). This is delightful …
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Moron-Garcia is one of the estates I follow closely, as I have good connections to it and therefore the opportunity to taste the wines several times a year. I have the same luxury with Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé, and to a certain extent also with Morey-Coffinet and a couple of very fine …
Hand-destemming grapes bunch by bunch - or a variation on this technique - is being tested and implemented more frequently by some of Burgundy's winemakers. Domaine Moron-Garcia, headed by Pierre-Olivier Garcia, was presumably the first to practice "baie par baie" (berry by berry) destemming in …
[Read more...] about The perception of roses – Domaine Jean-Pierre Guyon’s 2020s
