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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Aligoteurs tasting in March/April is an annual treat serving the best aligotees made by the best aligoteurs. The tasting brought forward wine from 2023 and 2024 ... with a few off springs from the earlier vintages. A lot of very good wines and actually very few surprises ... The …
[Read more...] about Impressions from the Aligoteurs 2026 tasting
A hard but fine day of work ... Les Aligoteurs is doing great work to promote the Aligoté grape ... and this week, they hosted a great tasting where the wine press was invited to taste the 2023 Aligoté wines from central Burgundy and Chablis. I know that many Aligotés are produced now - …
Les Aligoteurs is a (sort of) annual event held by the rapidly growing organization with the purpose of promoting aligoté and expanding its acceptance, understanding, and consumption. This is a vivid and lively organization with plenty of members showing the will to work hard and improve. The …
Visiting producers in Burgundy is a privilege ... meeting all kinds of exciting people and characters. One of the finest moments on my October 2017 trip was a visit at the prominent Marsannay producer Sylvain Pataille. There is a saying - the wines resembles the people who makes them! I find …
[Read more...] about Visit Domaine Sylvain Pataille – tasting of the 2016s from cask
The October trip is a shorter stop before the main round of tastings in start November 2017. I do have some exiting new names on the program here in October alongside some of my favorites I have visited before. First out - Domaine de la Cras - an estate located just outside Dijon - on the Côte …
