Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
On my November 2018 trip I had the opportunity to vist Domaine Faiveley to taste the 2017 vintage. As last time Erwan Faiveley conducted the tasting himself, choosing a fine but limited selection of the best wines in the huge portfolio of Faiveley wines. Photo: Erwan Faiveley - November …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Faiveley – tasting of the white 2017s
The 2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles is a brilliant wine. Classic Pucelles nose - with hay, orange notes (caramelised orange peel) - vivid and relatively forceful. On the palate long, refined and intense with a lovely airiness and refinement. Better that Chassagene Cailleret .... a tie probably. …
[Read more...] about Domaine Morey-Coffinet, Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 2017
Chevalier-Montrachet is a great vineyard, perhaps only surpassed by Montrachet in the white classifications. Chevalier-Montrachet is only located in the Puligny-Montrachet appellation, but have been expanded a couple of times over the years, as parts of Les Demoiselles and Les Caillerets have …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Chartron, Chevalier-Montrachet
What can I say - really happy to be back at Morey-Coffinet visiting the great wines of Thibault Morey - this time the 2017s. A lovely vintage - with good production - relatively classic with some sunny sides to the wines - as many vintages these years. The wines are charming, enjoyable, …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Morey-Coffinet – tasting of the white 2017s
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 …
[Read more...] about Visit Joseph Drouhin – tasting the white 2017s from cask
