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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The 2013 Vosne-Romanée Malconsort Cuvée Christiane from Montille is a lovely effort .. standing it's ground even tasted together with La Tâche 2011. The bouquet is currently slightly backward, but still plenty of Vosne spices - interesting to taste the Christiane together with it's more famous …
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I first tasted the La Tâche 2011 from cask in March 2013, and was very impressed - a delightful wine for the vintage. Actually I was slightly nervous to have been a bit too optimistic regarding the 2011s from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - but actually I still feel delighted tasting the 2011 La …
[Read more...] about Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, La Tâche 2011
Great to be back at Domaine Jean-Marc Millot with Alix Millot taking a stronger and more prominent role at the estate - and clearly getting the room and freedom to make changes and improvements. The 2017s here are as expected lovely and brimming with pinot pleasure ... a notch up in quality …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Jean-Marc Millot, Tasting of the 2017s from cask
The legendary 1er cru Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux was introduced by Henri Jayer in 1978 - before this the wine from this now famous vineyard was included in the Vosne-Romanée village of Domaine Henri Jayer. In connection with the Baghera/Wine auction of wines from the Henri Jayer domaine cellar …
[Read more...] about The Henri Jayer Insight – Cros Parantoux the area and production
On June 17th 2018 an amazing 855 bottles and 209 magnums of Henri Jayer Burgundies were on auction in Geneva. The auction is held by Baghera/Wine and the wines comes directly from the cellar of the former Henri Jayer estate in Vosne-Romanée - as the sellers are the daughters of the legendary Henri …
[Read more...] about Henri Jayer Insight – The production in the 1978 vintage
