The Echezeaux 2008 from Domaine Dujac is rather firm and backward - and really needs air to unfold. Quite a contrast to the Dujac Aux Malconsort 2008 - that showed much more expressive and open for business (tasted on the same day). The Echezeaux is quite tight and offering a darker and more weighty …
Burgundy
Visit Joseph Drouhin – tasting the white 2017s from cask
Travelling Burgundy - I do taste a lot of good wines and meet a lot of talented and great people ... from Meurilly on the Côte to the outskirts Beaune, from a diminutive cellars to the Drouhin facilities, from Nicolas Faure to Veronique Drouhin. Different worlds one could say ... yet in the end …
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Domaine Dujac, Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsort 2008
The Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsort 2008 from Domaine Dujac is in a gorgeous place. In the bouquet red organic fruit - lovely spicy and floral notes - cinnamon and violets. On the palate vibrant and vivid fruit, lovely minerality and acidity - openly knit and expressive. A magnificent glass currently - …
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Visit Domaine Nicolas Faure, tasting of the 2017s from cask
What can I say ... great to be back in the diminutive cellar at Domaine Nicolas Faure in Meuilley. My first visit to Meuilley was in the summer of 2016 - and while I had heard about the wines from Nicolas Faure, he was then still relatively unknown. Now two years later his wines are famous …
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The Robert Drouhin Treasure – auction news
The Jayer Auction earlier this summer showed that only the sky is the limit for the prices of rare Burgundies - if the provenance is impeccable and the wines are of unique quality and reputation. Records are however set to be broken, and the upcoming Auction from the Robert Drouhin private …
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