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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
It took me some time - years - to fully appreciate the wines of Cécile Tremblay. Honestly, to claim I fully understand these wines - or any Burgundy wines in fact - would be bragging. Wine is complex, and the development of each bottle is unique. Cécile Tremblay's wines have a unique generosity …
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Researching more deeply vins d'émotion reveals that it is often the same producers - and even vineyards and plots - that produce the wines that qualify for this attribute. Particularly, the two- and three-heart ratings are frequently the same wine year in and year out, although naturally the …
Beaumonts; Beaux Monts; Beauxmonts - whatever the spelling, the name means delightful pinot with many variations. It is a large vineyard covering the slope above Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots towards Flagey-Echezeaux. Cecile Tremblay has a lovely plot in the centre of the vineyard with old vines, and …
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Some wines have tremendous hedonistic appeal - at least to me. One example is Chambolle-Musigny Les Feusselottes, a wine that combines refined detail with hedonistic generosity from relatively deep, ample soil. No one seems to express the joyful, hedonistic charms of Feusselottes better than …
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Being a wine journalist is a treat. One gets to meet a lot of nice vigneron(ne)s, and furthermore get to taste some of their best wines. This is good, but some tastings are programmed with more enthusiasm and higher expectations than others; after all, even journalists are human. The …
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