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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Domaine Duroché is one of the rising stars of Gevrey-Chambertin - as Pierre Duroché has increased the quality of the wines significantly within the latest vintages - the 2014s are lovely, the 2015s are magnificent and the 2016s are perhaps even more impressive. Pierre Duroché is a lucky …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Duroché Chambertin Clos de Bèze
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 …
[Read more...] about The red 2016s – Impressions and first insights
The Gevrey-Chambertin appellation is large with quite a lot of rather large Grand Crus generously allocated when the current classification was established. Not all plots of the Gevrey Grand Crus are of high standard, and yet still they are famous in the Burgundy world where names like Charmes …
[Read more...] about Vineyard Insight: Latricières-Chambertin
I have spend a lot of time looking at different Burgundian maps during the last five years and still it never cease to amaze me how many for me rather unknown terroirs I can find when I just take a quick glance at one of the appellation. And once in a while I stumble across beautiful wines produced …
[Read more...] about Terroir Insight: Domaine Duroché Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Etelois
The mysterious world of Gevrey-Chambertin - the reemerging appellation. I got off on the wrong foot with Gevrey-Chambertin back in the 1990s ... buying and tasting extracted, concentrated and or decade-macerated wines. Back in the days where many of these wines tasted more like a Bordeaux with the …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Duroché – tasting of the 2015s from cask
