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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Making wine in Burgundy is not work for the impatient ... replanting a vineyard is easily a 25 years project from uprooting of the vines to the first vintage made from the new vines. This has been the case for the Musigny Blanc from Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé. The replanting began in 1986 and …
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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 …
