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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Vosne-Romanee Les Chaumes is quite new in the Pacalet collection - and is made from a plot located in the top part of the vineyard - just below La Tache/Malconsort. The bouquet offer complex layers of red and dark berry fruit - spiced with violets, pepper and allspice. The palate is crammed with …
[Read more...] about Philippe Pacalet, Vosne Romanee, Les Chaumes 2013
The 2010 Vosne-Romanee Les Chaumes from Lamarche is a quite nice effort. The nose is offering a lovely selection of red and dark berry aromas ... spiced with a suitable level of oak and a discrete minerality. On the palate pure and quite transparent rather dark fruit. Its well balanced and …
[Read more...] about Domaine Francois Lamarche, Vosne Les Chaumes 2010
The Vosne-Romanee Les Chaumes 2012 is a step up from the village wine. In the nose red and dark berry fruit - ripe and pure - spiced with Vosne minerality and a quite discrete impression of oak. On the palate silky transparent fruit - lightfooted but more weight that the village - with a lovely …
[Read more...] about Domaine Georges Noellat, Vosne Les Chaumes 2012
Les Chaumes is surprisingly crisp and energetic in the 2012 vintage - no doubt helped by the 18% whole cluster. The bouquet offer rich confit fruit of red berries - notes of raspberries, forest strawberries drizzled with discrete Vosne spices. On the palate quite weigthy fruit - it's rich and almost …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Romanee Les Chaumes 2012
The Vosne Romanee Les Chaumes 1996 from Meo-Camuzet is a big rather rustic wine. In the nose red and dark fruit - slightly stewed and alcoholic. On the palate dense and rich with liquorice infused dark berry fruit. It's quite intense but still somewhat backward and austere. In my view too extracted …
[Read more...] about Domaine Meo-Camuzet, Vosne Les Chaumes 1996
