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The Beaune Saint Landry is a gorgeous and overlooked white Beaune. This monopole vineyard is located above and just south of Beaune - and produces in my view one of the best whites in the BEaune appellation. The bouquet offer cool variations of white and yellow fruits .. some exotic orchard fruits.. …
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Clos St. Marc ..... is a monopole in Nuits-Saint-Georges, or should I rather say Premeaux. The vineyard is now owned by Domaine Michéle et Patrice Rion ... a very fine but also in my view a somewhat overlooked producer. It's a very interesting terroir - located in the hearth of Premeaux .. so …
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The Chambertin Clos de Beze is quite a step up from the other reds - a big, impressive and quite backward Grand Cru in the making. The bouquet is currently quite closed showing juicy red and dark berry fruit and a powerful earthy minerality ... intense and tightly knit. On the palate rich, intense …
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The Clos de Vougeot is showing very well offering a both juicy and vibrant representation of the appellation. In the nose red fruit .. quite floral (40 - 50% whole cluster), hints of plum and chocolate spiced with a deep earthy minerality. On the palate quite refined and lightfooted for the …
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I really like the 2014 Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Cailles from Bouchard ... a quite refined NSG considering the location of the vineyard next to the somewhat more austere Les Saint-Georges. In the bouquet lovely expressive red fruit (40% whole cluster and 40% new oak) ... complex with a nice underlying …
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