The 2020 vintage is a serious and somewhat scary beast - to me at least- coming as it does after the outstandingly great red 2019s. Don't get me wrong: I think the 2020s are very, very good, and sometimes even better than the 2019s. It's seemingly a cooler year, and a vintage that often talks to …
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2020 cool in hot year [the one]
While 2019 is mentioned as the best year in history by some, the word on 2020 is not yet so unambiguous. Yet while it is early, views and preferences are starting to be formed. As an old man - 55 - I have seen a lot, and announcing a vintage as the best ever is not going to turn my head. I know, …
Terroir Insight: Domaine Morey-Coffinet Chassagne Blanchot Dessus
Montrachet is a legendary vineyard, and while its boundaries have been fixed since 1921, some neighbouring plots and parcels are more closely related to it than others. Thibault Morey has three plots located very close to the promised land. The first is his Batard-Montrachet, located a wall- and …
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Chassagne-Montrachet – Winehog favourites
Travelling and experiencing Burgundy for 20-some years does leave marks, scars and impressions. I've decided to draw on that experience to take a different (for me), yet also well-known, approach to discovering Burgundy's vineyards: I will explore my favourite vineyards of a given appellation - …
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Terroir Insight: Domaine Morey-Coffinet Les Pucelles
More Puligny refinement: It is not the biggest and not the greatest, but perhaps it is the most refined, delicate, and hedonistic of the Puligny 1ers crus - the filigreed and poetic Les Pucelles. Looking at plots in Pucelles, we find Domaine Morey-Coffinet with a parcel just next to Domaine …
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