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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Aligoté En Gerlieus is just as delicate and refined as when I tasted it from cask - cask and amphorae - in June last year. Crystal clear and airy, it is light-footed with a gorgeous core of light fennel and mineral notes. Absolutely effortless, it shows an elegant, slightly reductive note. It's …
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The Les Herbues 2017 (amongst friends "the Abuse") is a typical Faure wine: refined and light-footed, with uniquely fine-grained tannins extracted by his old vertical press in Meuilley. The nose is open, and showing medium heat (it was quite a hot year, but not that hot). This is delightful …
[Read more...] about Nicolas Faure Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Herbues 2017
We all have favourites, wines that always - or very often - bring us something special. It is easy to have expensive favourites (aside from the pain of paying for the bottle), but finding moderately priced treats can be more difficult. One of my favourite wines is the Nicolas Faure Aligoté La …
[Read more...] about The Name is Faure, Nicolas Faure – My Favourite Aligoté
When one writes about wine, the scribblings can easily become standard, run-of-the-mill gossip and notes. The re-use of content and text is systemized in this business as much as in others. But sometimes a little more reflection is needed. Let's take the essential question first: Why do I really …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Nicolas Faure – tasting the 2020s from cask
It's good to be back in the Meuilley cellar of Nicolas Faure, in a lovely village with for me a tricky name to spell - Meuilley, Meuilley, Meuilley, Meuilley - in the valley above Nuits-Saint-Georges 😝 On this visit I was with Paul Wasserman and his team, harking back to the first tasting …
[Read more...] about Visit to Domaine Nicolas Faure – tasting the 2019s from cask
