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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Alix Millot have made some good 2024s ... good for the vintage and for the appellation. As always with the 2024s they are not amongst the most powerful wines in history, but when well made - like the Millot wines - they can produce quite some hedonistic happiness. There are limits ... and follow …
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My visit to Domaine Jean-Luc Burguet (formerly Domaine Alain Burguet) in Gevrey Chambertin was one of the most positive tastings I had in 2024. Jean-Luc Burguet is a delightful, thoughtful and first and foremost, cheerful vigneron who makes beautiful and hedonistic Pinots ... just the way I like …
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Sometimes, the wine world throws you a curveball which set the wines and Burgundy in a slightly different light. The visit was Alvina Pernot - the granddaughter of Paul Pernot in Puligny-Montrachet, a relatively new estate, it was started in 2018 - still building experience and taking over more …
Vignerons normally harvest their own vineyards, and get their grapes from their own plots. It seems, however, that an increasing part of the wine production is coming from bought grapes, i.e grapes from vineyards owned by others. This can be a sale of grapes, of juice or even "more or less" …
I tasted the 2023s from Roulot already in April 2025, and as always some wines were more ready to recieve a visit at this stage ... others clearly had a more reductive day. I now had the chance to retaste the portfolio ... most showed more or less the same (unchanged review) whike a few needed a …
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