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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Billecart-Salmon Cuvée Nicolas-François 1998 is a really beautiful and refined champagne. In the bouquet refined aromas of white flowers, oysters, pear with notes of brioche and yeast. The palate is offering lovely freshness with rich and delicate fruit. Very juicy and forward. The finish is …
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The Blanc de Blanc 1982 from Billecart Salmon is a perfectly matured champagne, very nice complexity, good length and body. Rarely does one get a fully mature champagne, that has kept this level of freshness and balance. It's not a very big and heavy champagne, and not the greatest of terroir, but …
My aim with the Winehog is unchanged, but I have for some time wanted a stronger focus on the hedonistic pleasure and simple enjoyment of drinking Burgundies. I have therefore adjusted my mission statement: "My mission is to help readers find more joy and hedonistic pleasure in Burgundy wines; to …
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