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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Ramonet St. Aubin Les Charmois 2001 is quite mature but still fresh and kicking. The nose offer matured fruit, hazenuts and a fine stony minerality. On the palate good weight, rather fresh with a good acidity ... its mature and rather complex ... the slightly simple or rough nature of the …
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Clos du Château is sort of a signature wine for Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. A very expressive Vosne Village made from a vineyard that used to be a part of the park around Château Vosne-Romanee. It's a magnificent village ... one of the very best in my view ... often offering a forward and …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Clos du Château
On my March trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure to revisit Chantereves- one of the rising stars within the world of micro negociants. Tomoko explaining about the new wine Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Damodes Chantereves, Savigny, Rhingau and Japan Chantereves is a small negociant located in a …
[Read more...] about Visit – Maison Chantereves – tasting the 2015 reds
It's easy to be overwhelmed by all the Grand Crus made by Bouchard Pere et Fils, but there are other gems in the large portfolio of this big house ... and in my view the wines from the Monthélie appellation are some of them. I tasted the regular Monthélie from cask in November 2015 - and it was a …
[Read more...] about Bouchard Pere et Fils, Monthélie Les Duresses 2014
The Corton from Bouchard is one of my reference wines on the big hill - as it has performed well quite consistently over many years. The Bouchard Corton is from the Le Corton section at the very top of the vineyard, a section with a high proportion of limestone - this yields an intensely mineral …
