Moving on and up to the Chambolle Musigny 2015 - a lovely cool village from four lieu-dits in Chambolle “Les Bussières”, “les Chardannes”, “les Herbues” et “les Gammaires” in the lower northern part of the appellation. The bouquet is showing very well bursting with cool red and dark fruits - …
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Domaine Arlaud, Bourgogne Roncevie 2015
Starting out with the Bourgogne Roncevie 2015 a delightful glass. Its produced in Gevrey-Chambertin and the yearly production is around 29000 bottles .. a healthy quantity. Slight reduction (prepared for bottling) on the nose currently but lovely expressive fruit underneath .. fine berry notes and …
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The red 2016s – Impressions and first insights
After running through my tasting notes from my June 2017 trip I have updated my impressions on the 2016 red Burgundies. Thibaud Clerget of Domaine Y. Clerget. I will update these impressions as I taste more 2016s over the next year, and add more insights ass I find them. Red Burgundies …
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Visit Domaine Arlaud – tasting of the 2015s from cask
Domaine Arlaud is producing some magnificent wines - and despite they are both Biodynamic and improving quality each year they still are somewhat under the radar. In my view they certainly don't get the deserved credit and acclaim. In a sense the estate is quite low key .. located in a relatively …
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Odds and ends around Christmas and New Year
I tasted quite a few interesting wines at social gatherings while celebrating Christmas and New Year. Lafon galore .. the good, the ugly Starting out with the whites I tasted three wines from Comte Lafon two 2004s - Les Perrieres and Les Charmes, and one sadly premoxed example of the 2001 …
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