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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2014 La Romanee is a beautiful wine - showing very well even at this early stage. In the bouquet layers of very delicate red fruit - notes of strawberries, boysenberries, cherries - spiced with violets and peony rose and - presented by a very refined and powerful filigree minerality. On the …
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La Romanee is a as always quite a step up from the Echezeaux ... to a more serious yet also refined level. In the bouquet layers of very delicate red fruit - notes of strawberries, boysenberries, cherries, violets and peony rose - brought forward by a both very refined and powerful filigree …
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On my November 2015 trip to Burgundy I had the opportunity to taste the 2014s from Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. As usual I entered the gate to Chateau Vosne-Romanee with high expectations and was greeted by a cheerful Louis-Michel Liger-Belair and his very large but lovely dog Arak. Constance …
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The La Romanee 2008 is very expressive and floral - a exiting La Romanee as it's a vintage very much structured and driven by the acidity. The bouquet is offering a juicy organic red fruit spiced with a multitude of Vosne spices .. violets, peony rose, cinnamon and allspice. On the palate very juicy …
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The La Romanee 2009 is quite different from both the 2008 and 2010 with it's darker and more dense expression. In the nose red and darkberry fruit, oak still a bit forward ... relatively dark compared to other vintages. On the palate weighty and quite dark fruit, remarkably refined for the vintage, …
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