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Moving on to Beaune Bressandes - The nose is brimming with ripe fruit offered with a floral expression of the terroir - 25% whole cluster in this wine. It's very elegant and balanced, offering a beautiful expression of this fine Beaune terroir. A quite magnificent Beaune 1er cru in the …
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The Aloxe Corton appellation - outside Corton and Corton Charlemagne - is sadly somewhat overlooked, and this is really a shame, as some of the lesser wines really has a lot to offer. The Aloxe Corton Les Boutières (village terroir located in the southern end of the appellation) is producing an …
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The Beaune village - two cuvées that normally are blended before bottling. They are from very different terroirs - but quality wise almost at the same level - with the "northern cuvee" being the better and fresher in 2015 - in my view. The 2015 cuvées both offer juicy and energetic fruit - quite …
When you read a missive from one of the Publicity Hounds that like to fill you in on the "prestige" wines, Beaune will be dismissed in a wave of condensation, "too many premier crus" and "lets go somewhere where there is only a barrel per Luit Dix made" somewhere in the Nuits. There is the lie …
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It's always a great pleasure to taste the wines made by David Croix - both at Camille Giroud and at his own estate Domaine des Croix. The wines are juicy and very balanced offering tremendous pleasure at a relatively fair price ... Let me just say .. the 2015s is no exception the wines are …
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