Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
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
Puligny-Montrachet should somehow represent the pinnacle of white Burgundy - but during the last one or two decades the producers of Puligny have been seriously challenged by estates from other appellations. Things are however changing, and new talented estates appear and old prominent estates …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Jean Chartron – tasting the 2017s from cask
Domaine Thomas-Collardot is one of the new discoveries of 2018 - a relatively new and small estate, making some vivid and pure wines in Puligny-Montrachet. To be honest the Puligny-Montrachet scene has been somewhat quiet the last years but suddenly the rather static situation has been changed …
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Lets face it - 2016 is both a great and a terrible year for the Montrachet hill. On the Chassagne side the frost was merciless and most of the havest was destroyed in the April frost, while the Puligny side produced at least some Montrachet, and while the yields were lower - Bouchard Pere et Fils …
Beyond elusive ... not even in my dreams. The red grand crus of Domaine Leroy and Domaine d'Auvenay are both very rare and very costly - but the whites are even further away from the snout of the Winehog. Both the Chevalier-Montrachet and the Batard Montrachet are in what I would call in a league …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine d’Auvenay, Chevalier-Montrachet
