Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
White and red Santenays are speaking to me and my grumpy old palate more and more. The white Santenays have an outstanding saline minerality also found in white Savigny-les-Beaune and parts of Pernand-Vergelesses. Add to this the fact that the red Santenays can be very interesting if the right …
[Read more...] about Domaine Antoine Olivier – An Exciting Estate
New small estates come on the scene in Burgundy, if not each day, then each week or month. Sometimes these estates come with true talent and the skills to actually make a hedonistic difference. Two good friends, Eric Pignal and Loïc Lamy, have started a small wine project in a well-known cellar …
I don't know Elodie Roy particularly well, and nonetheless she has been with The Winehog -sort of - for more than eight years, since my first visit to Domaine Anne Gros in 2012. The tasting at Anne Gros was (back then) conducted by a seemingly very hard-working and quite serious Elodie Roy. This …
[Read more...] about Domaine Elodie Roy 2019s – a new estate
Summertime and tastings. This week I attended a presentation of Domaine de Bellene by the founder of the estate Nicholas Potel, a well-known name in the Burgundian wine world. It was a lovely and quite extravagant tasting at the fine old Hotel d'Angeleterre in Copenhagen - or to be precise at the …
[Read more...] about Domaine de Bellene – Nicolas Potel, in other words
One of the best visits I had in 2017 was at Domaine Jean-Marc Vincent in Santenay. Several friends have been encouraging me to visit Jean-Marc Vincent and his wife Anne-Marie to taste their lovely wines. Sometimes I’m a bit slow .. but finally I felt compelled to arrange a visit in connection …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Jean-Marc Vincent – Tasting the 2016s from cask
