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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Domaine Grivot is one of the top end producers on Richebourg in my view only surpassed by DRC and Domaine Leroy - and quite evenly matched or even better than Domaine Meo-Camuzet and Domaine Anne Gros. While the Grivot family has been in Vosne-Romanee since the late 18th cenury ... the ownership …
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The 2002 Richebourg is showing very well offering fine matured notes. The nose offer complex notes of red berries - raspberries, dark cherries, plum ... spiced with rose petals and a fine stony minerality. On the palate forward and openly knit - less weight than La Tâche - lovely cool mid-palate …
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The Richebourg 2004 from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is a quite floral and matured wine. In the bouquet lovely red fruit with notes of sous-bois and peony rose - hints of orange and violets. On the palate quite intense openly knit fruit with a lovely minerality - expressive with a good power and …
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Anne Gros is making some delightful wines, and the top of the range is the mighty Richebourg produced from a plot in the northern section of the vineyard - in the bottom part of the Gros family holdings - see map below where the Anne Gros holdings on Richebourg is marked with a red …
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Domaine Leroy is one of the legendary producers in Burgundy - a Domaine formed and managed by the equally legendary Mme. Lalou Bize-Leroy. The Domaine was shaped in 1988 when Mme Leroy acquired the old Charles Noëllat estate in Vosne-Romanée, and along whith this got sizable plots of both …
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