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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
To be honest I was very impressed indeed by the 2015s when I tasted them in June 2016 - it was before malo, so I was quite cautious not to be too exited, but already at that point I felt that something special was fermenting in the barrels in the cellars at Domaine Grivot. I was therefore …
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Domaine Cathiard is now established as one of the top estates in Burgundy - quality has been truly impressive since the 2011 vintage - and the prices have skyrocketed in the great market as demand has grown exponentially. So expectations are high when you visit the modern estate buildings at …
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Domaine Grivot has improved quality tremendously over the last 5 to 10 years, optimizing and improving the wines little by little each year. The wines are made with a lighter hand with the oak less present in the young wines, and since 2009 the micro details and the purity of the wines have been …
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Back where it all started five years ago - tasting at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. The Winehog blog was conceptualized during a tasting at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in July 2011 - a tasting that also had the partizipation of Clive Coates and Roy Richards of Richards Wallford. It was a very …
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Vosne Romanee Aux Reignots is becoming more and more acclaimed as the quality increases - and while good wines were made before 2000 the quality today from several top producers like Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Domaine Grivot and Domaine Cathiard is much higher - and this places Aux Reignots …
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