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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2004 Vosne-Romanee La Colombiere from Liger-Belair is showing matured notes. The bouquet is open and charming with quite intense red fruit aromas - red and dark cherries, a hint of strawberries and raspberries - and a beautiful whiff of rose petals and Vosne spices. After some air the fruit on …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Colombiere 2004
The Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2009 from Domaine Poisot is a refined and lovely wine. The bouquet is currently slightly closed (perhaps due to recent transport) but gradually showing more and more red fruit - cherries, raspberries - with hints of oak, coffee, liquorice and plum. On the palate beautiful …
[Read more...] about Domaine Poisot, Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2009
The Romanee-Saint-Vivant from Arnoux-Lachaux is made from a 0.375 ha plot in the southern part of the vineyard - just above the garden of Bernard Gros and just north of La Grande Rue. The 2008 edition of this lovely wine offers a quite expressive nose, with dark and red fruits - cherries, …
[Read more...] about Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2008
The Richebourg 2005 from Thibault Liger-Belair is a dense and intense wine. The bouquet starts out with almost Bordeuax like notes of cassis and liqourice. After some time more complex fruit notes with dark cherries and forrest berries appear under the dense sweet cassis. On the palate dense and …
The Vosne Romanee Gaudichots is a more aloof and severe wine than the Petits Monts. Made from very old wines - planted in 1930 - on the vineyard located just next to the mighty La Tache. In the bouquet fine minerality with more dense and sweeter red fruits than the Petits Monts - notes of peony rose …
[Read more...] about Domaine Forey, Vosne Romanee Les Gaudichots 2011
