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The Amoureuses 2001 from Vogüé is starting to show some maturing notes and is drinking just beautifully. The bouquet offer fine red and dark fruits, notes of sous-bois brought forward by a fine limestone minerality. On the palate airy medium bodied fruit - cool and regal offering a both fresh and …
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The Amoureuses 2003 is rich - still youthful and dense. The bouquet offer rather warm fruit notes - not overripe - but still on the hot side of the Burgundian spectrum - if not more. On the palate rich even velvet fruit, relatively dark and dense with the powerful Amoureuses limistone minerality …
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Poetic ... I was thinking poetic on my way up the hill from Vougeot to Chambolle to taste the 2015s from Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé with winemaker Francois Millet. I tasted the 2015s before the malolactic fermentation in June 2016 and now I had the opportunity to taste these magnificent wines …
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The Chambolle village 1998 is starting is showing beautifully for the vintage. The bouquet offer pure red fruits - transparent and offering a fine Chambolle minerality. It's still rather youthful - but maturing notes of sous-bois is now starting to show. On the palate lovely crisp red fruit - very …
The Amoureuses 2006 from Vogüé is quite forward - yet still lacks the ultimate transparency as many other from this vintage. The nose offer fine quite energetic red and dark fruit - layred and not unfolding most of the potential yet. On the palate focus, quite intense - medium bodied with a vibrant …
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