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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
A big week of tastings requires a timely editorial turnaround, so there's very little poetry (lucky you) in this article on Etienne Julien's 2020 wines. For more information on the Julien estate, check this previous tasting article on the domaine's wines. The 2020s from Domaine Etienne …
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Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont - also known as Domaine Axelle Marchard de Gramont, or just Axelle - is one of my fixed annual tastings, and this was actually my second visit here since I moved to Burgundy earlier in the year. The Covid-related shuffling of tastings gave me the opportunity to …
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In mid-June, I visited Domaine Georges Noëllat to have an early peek at the 2020 vintage. Malolactic fermentation was not fully completed in all the wines, but in general, all were showing well despite that fact. So let's get down to business with the initial comments and notes on the Georges …
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Pierre-Olivier Garcia of Domaine Moron-Garcia is continuing to develop his viticulture and his baie-par-baie vinification concept. I have followed his work in the vineyards and seen the progress over the last four months. The vines have finished flowering, so it's (roughly) 80-100 days until …
[Read more...] about P.-O. Garcia Viticulture – NSG Les Charmois
Charles Lachaux of Vosne-Romanée's Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux is continuing to develop his viticulture. I have followed Lachaux's vineyard Les Procès in Nuits-Saint-Georges throughout this year, watching its development and his techniques as we move towards harvest. Now we have reached flowering in …
