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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Saint-Jacques village from Domaine Odoul-Coquard is a lovely wine. It comes from a vineyard located close to the border to Vosne-Romanee - and this translate into a quite refined and complex wine. This area above the road and near Vosne-Romanee is a bit overlooked in my …
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I have travelled Burgundy many times, but never seen or even heard about the village Meuilley. The tasting at Domaine Nicolas Faure certainly put Meuilly on the map for me with one of the most invigorating and memorable tastings I have attended in years. Domaine Nicolas Faure is a new estate - …
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The Nuits Saint Georges Clos des Grandes Vignes has taken a further step forward quality wise in the 2014 vintage - adding more focus and definition to the wine. It's showing very well after bottling offering a lovely floral bouquet with juicy red and dark berry fruit - spiced with violets, peony …
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One of the best wines from the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation is in my view the Clos de Corvées from Domaine Prieuré Roch - a special cuvee made from a monopole within the Aux Corvées vineyard. It's in many ways a quite unusual wine ... conceptualized by a remarkable man - Henri-Frédéric Roch, …
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One of my favorite wines from the Nuits-Saint-Georges is the Aux Cras made by Louis-Michel Liger-Belair. It has all the qualities I look for in a Burgundian wine - it's very enjoyable, it's pure and transparent and first and foremost it offers a lovely expression of the "almost" Vosne …
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