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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
One of my favourite vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges is Les Argilliéres or Clos des Argilliéres - a 1er cru located in the center of Premeaux at the southern end of the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation. It's not the most well known of the the Premeaux 1er crus - and perhaps not producing the …
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The Chambertin Clos de Bezé 2008 from Prieure Roch is a very vibrant, expressive and energetic wine. The bouquet is bursting with red fruit - spiced with allspice, cinnamon - and backed by a quite intense minerality. On the palate juicy, vibrant with a quite generous mid-palate fruit. It's like many …
[Read more...] about Domaine Prieure-Roch, Chambertin Clos de Bezé 2008
One of the best wines from the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation is in my view the Clos de Corvées from Domaine Prieuré Roch - a special cuvee made from a monopole within the Aux Corvées vineyard. It's in many ways a quite unusual wine ... conceptualized by a remarkable man - Henri-Frédéric Roch, …
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Is the map of famous vineyards in Burgundy deceptive? My curiosity has always been aroused by the 'unknown' vines right next door. When you are standing in a hallowed plot, and a very short distance away is a big, old, symbolic vine that looks like it was born in another century....you can't help …
[Read more...] about Collins Corner #6 – Vosne-Romanee Haut Maizieres …
There are many fine village terroirs in Vosne-Romanee producing some of the very best village wines from Burgundy. If we go 20 or 30 years back most village wines were blends made from several vineyards but in recent years more and more single vineyard village wines have gained a stronger …
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