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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Domaine Poisot is a quite "new" domaine run by the former navy captain Remi Poisot, who is now making wine from a fine portfolio of family vineyards. This was my second vist here, in the dark and very cold cellars under the beautiful Chateau Corton Grancy. Remi began making wines before the …
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The Romanee Saint-Vivant is a magnificent wine .. classy, sensual and refined. In the bouquet multiple layers of red and darker fruits infused with a explosion of Vosne spices. On the palate layers of juicy and sikly fruit, intense with a zen like balance and effortlessness. The complexity is …
[Read more...] about Domaine Cathiard, Romanee Saint-Vivant 2013
There are few wines in Burgundy as prestigious as the Grand Crus from Domaine Leroy - they are rare, expensive and often magnificently good. As always the Grand Crus of Vosne are getting much of the attention .. and many speak very enthusiastically about the Romanee Saint-Vivant from Leroy as …
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One of the highlights on my November 2014 tour de Bourgogne was my very first visit at Domaine Cathiard. I have seen the wines from this Domaine improve tremendously over the years - a development that was accentuated when Sebastian Cathiard took over in 2011. Both the 2011s and the 2012s are …
[Read more...] about Visit at Domaine Cathiard – tasting of the 2013 vintage
The Romanee Saint-Vivant 2007 from Domaine Poisot is not really showing the full potential at the moment. In the nose quite perfumed and dense red berry fruit with notes of cherries, raspberries, elderberries ... spiced with a quite discrete minerality and some hints of toasted oak. On the palate …
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