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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2011 from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is a refined and classic RSV. The nose is currently quite floral, and offer lovely crisp red berry fruit - elegant, energetic and very pure. The palate offer lovely purity and focus - very refined with it's transparent medium weight …
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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 …
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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
It's rare to see new producers or owners on the big grand crus in Vosne Romanee, but during my work on the articles about Romanee-Saint-Vivant vineyard I discovered a new and for me unknown producer on this fine vineyard - Domaine Poisot. The story is however much more complex, as the history of …
[Read more...] about New producer on Romanee-Saint-Vivant – Domaine Poisot
In my first article about the Romanee-Saint-Vivant we uncovered the history of the vineyard ending up with a list of the curent owners of RSV - see the first article about Romanee-Saint-Vivant here. This article is about the wines made from Romanee-Saint-Vivant. First a short aromatic profile of …
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