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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
One of my most exciting tastings so far this year is the 2022s from Comte Liger-Belair, as it includes a number of new wines from the expansion of this already fabulous estate. With the '22 vintage, Louis-Michel Liger-Belair got new plots in Grands Echezeaux, Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts, La …
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The complexity of the appellations and vineyards of Burgundy is almost endless. It's as if someone said: Complexity is good, but impossible is even better. Then foreigners and journalists won't comprehend it, and if they do, they can't pronounce it! 16/10/2023 One of these complexities is …
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Edouard Confuron (a member of the widespread Confuron family) is part of the relatively low-profile Confuron-Gindre estate, which is in Vosne-Romanée just below La Grande Rue next to Domaine Meo-Camuzet. Edouard is working with his father, but is slowly – and successfully – making his mark on the …
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Nicolas Faure's wines are, for me, perfect examples of vins d'émotion. They are not perfect wines, they are not technical wines, but they are wines of joy and pleasure, made for hedonistic indulgence with friends (good friends). They are also, sadly, difficult to buy and getting costly in the …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Nicolas Faure – Tasting the 2022s from Cask
One of my favourite vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges is the Clos des Corvées Pagets - located south of Clos de Covées. Both these vineyards were formerly a part of Aux Corvées, an historic lieu-dit. The clos are only part of this terrific, larger vineyard from which domaines such as Arnoux-Lachaux …
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