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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2015 Pommard Rugiens from Heitz-Lochardet is forward and very fruity for the appellation. The nose offer ripe, generous and floral fruit - nice mineral impact. On the palate juicy, rich and quite intense - without being dense. A elegant Rugiens - the 2015s continue to display a surprisingly …
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Domaine Michel Gounoux still offer older vintages as one of very few estates in Burgundy. The 2001 Pommard Grands Epenots is one of these wines. It's now quite mature - it's a lesser year in Pommard - unfolding beautifully and offering a mature complexity at this stage. The nose is cool and complex …
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There are many relatively unknown estates in Burgundy, and while I do see and taste a lot of Burgundy bottles I actually never noticed Domaine Rougeot in Meursault. Some estates have been famous and well known in previous decades ... and some estates focus on specific markets - hence unknown …
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I was doing a education session about Pommard with a private client, and he opened the the Pommard Epenots 2010 from Lucien Le Moine to accompany our talk about the Pommard and Volnay appellations - see more about the Winehog Education Sessions here. This wine is a perfect illustration of how …
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On my March 2017 trip to Burgundy I had the chance to revisit Armand Heitz at Domaine Heitz-Lochardet to retaste some of the 2015s from bottle. I tasted the 2015s for the first time in June 2016 - before bottling - and I have revisited the wines since and is getting increasingly impressed - …
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