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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Clos du Chateau 2014 was bottled already in September ... so this note is based on a tasting of the bottled wine. I would not say that Clos du Chateau is another big step up in quality from Colombiere ... but it's most certainly much more floral and expressive offering more minerality and Vosne …
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The third - and so far - the best vintage of this white for Louis-Michel - from the recently acquired vineyard Clos des Grandes Vignes in the southern end of Nuits-Saint-Georges. The vines were re-grafted with Chardonnay in 2010 - so this is a fairly new vineyard for the whites. The 2014s whites …
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Aux Brulées is pretty fragmented and the production of some of the fine wines made from this lovely 1er cru is sadly very limited indeed. One of the rarest birds is the Aux Brulées from Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. Firstly the production is very limited, secondly and more importantly the …
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La Romanee is a as always quite a step up from the Echezeaux ... to a more serious yet also refined level. In the bouquet layers of very delicate red fruit - notes of strawberries, boysenberries, cherries, violets and peony rose - brought forward by a both very refined and powerful filigree …
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The Echezeaux is one of my favorites of the Liger-Belair lineup - made from old vines in the climates Cruots, Champs Traversin and a small plot in Clos St. Denis. The 2014 edition of the Echezeaux is slightly backward at this stage - with a slight reduction on the nose. The bouquet is nevertheless …
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