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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2023 wines from Millot are as expected. They are quite lively with a relatively lightfooted appearance. They are more openly knit than the 2022s presumably because the yield is higher in 2023s and this is reflected in the structure of the wine. The vintage 2023 sometimes lacks a bit of …
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Burgundy in the wintertime can be as gloomy as a poor vintage of Nuits-Saint-Georges served too hot to enhance the overly extracted misery. I should not complain, but some days do not call for the largest smiles, however, last Thursday did actually induce both smile and laughter and some fruitful …
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Frédéric Engerer of Domaine Artemis is a true wine geek with a professional yet very nuanced and enjoyable taste for great Burgundies and wine in general. This year, during the Hospices de Beaune weekend, Artemis Domaine's director Frederic Engerer invited some of the leading journalists on …
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Passion, talent and pride make wines and sell wines. A winemaker without passion and talent rarely if ever produces emotional wines ... and to think talent is enough, one would be mistaken ... passion and the will to go that extra mile to achieve greatness is what separates the great from the …
Visiting Cécile Tremblay is always a special occasion - great wines and a cheerful atmosphere of wine and jokes. The estate has been enlarged with a number of new plots - important vineyards that bring Tremblay into another class of vigneronne. She now has more vineyards and larger portions of …
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