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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Vosne Les Beaux Monts is another beautiful effort. The nose is offering a intense and spicy expression of red berry fruit with hints of violets and liqourice. On the palate intense and balanced with a good midpalate concentration of vibrant pinot fruit. The minerality is powerful, refined and …
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The Vosne Colombiere from Liger-Belair is really showing the virtues of the 2011 vintage. In the nose delicate red berry fruit - raspberries with hints of liquorice, vanilla, oak, violets and peony rose. On the palate crisp and lush fruit - with a good density for the level. It's well balanced with …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger- Belair, Vosne Colombiere 2011
The Vosne Aux Brulee is one of my favorites from Clavelier. The bouquet is crammed with red fruit and minerality - violets and rose petals - a classic Vosne nose. On the palate intense red fruit - fresh with a lovely tension and nerve from the fine minerality of this great terroir. It's perfectly …
[Read more...] about Bruno Clavelier, Vosne Romanee Aux Brulee 2011
The last wine at this very early tasting from cask is Les Chaumes - one of the lesser 1er cru In Vosne Romanee. This wine contain 18% whole cluster grapes. The bouquet offer rich and quite dense red berry fruit - notes of raspberries, forest strawberries and discrete Vosne spices. The minerality is …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Les Chaumes 2012
The Vosne-Romanee La Combe Brulee 2011 is a beauty ... crammed with fruit and minerality. The nose offer lovely playful red fruit - raspberries, red currant with hints of rose petals. The palate display a - for the level - quite intense juicy fruit with a beautiful focusing minerality. All is …
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