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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
I've tasted quite a few white 2020s, and I was therefore delighted and excited to taste the '20s at Domaine Leflaive with Pierre Vincent, the estate's winemaker and general manager. Improvements in the new Leflaive era Domaine Leflaive has undertaken some major improvements, including a …
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To simplify your search for emotional wines, I have decided to compile a list of the top emotional producers in each appellation. Comments and thoughts The list contains producers that regularly score an emotional rating, and they are ranked in three levels. I hope this proves useful; …
Domaine Jean Chartron is one of the prominent, historic landowners in Puligny-Montrachet, having owned several of its holdings for more than 100 years. Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Jean-Michel Chartron, who is now running the estate with his sister Anne-Laure Chartron …
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More Puligny refinement: It is not the biggest and not the greatest, but perhaps it is the most refined, delicate, and hedonistic of the Puligny 1ers crus - the filigreed and poetic Les Pucelles. Looking at plots in Pucelles, we find Domaine Morey-Coffinet with a parcel just next to Domaine …
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Not the biggest and not the greatest, but perhaps the most refined, delicate, and hedonistic of the Puligny 1ers crus. I am of course talking about the expressive, filigreed and poetic Les Pucelles. In Pucelles there is a clos, which is strangely not very well known to many collectors, despite …
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