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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
This weeks article from C. Robert Collins is about another of the overlooked but great reds of Cote de Beaune: "When history jumps up - the forgotten Santenay" The search for great wine vineyards can involve studying maps or researching list of owners of famous crus, or sometimes a wine just …
[Read more...] about Collins Corner #2 – the forgotten Santenay
The Santeney Clos des Gravieres is a new wine in the Lamy portfolio … made from quite young wines - some planted in 2011 while another section is from 1966. The nose offer lovely yellow fruits brought forward by a lovely chalky minerality. On the palate quite rich and delightfully pure offering a …
[Read more...] about Domaine Hubert Lamy, Santenay Clos des Gravieres 2013
This is a real surprise - Domaine Chapelle, Santenay 1976. Not a great terroir, but this is a really good to very good mature wine. On the very positive side, it's drinking very well, on the downside, the wine does not have complexity, as it's from a fairly simple terroir. But for what it is, a …
