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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Corton Clos du Roi from Domaine de Montille is a gorgeous wine. Its transparent and lightfooted but with true grand cru intensity. The nose offer beautiful organic red fruits - delicate and transparent unveiling the fine minerailty of the Corton hill. On the palate intense yet also refined and …
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The Ramonet St. Aubin Les Charmois 2001 is quite mature but still fresh and kicking. The nose offer matured fruit, hazenuts and a fine stony minerality. On the palate good weight, rather fresh with a good acidity ... its mature and rather complex ... the slightly simple or rough nature of the …
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Clos du Château is sort of a signature wine for Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. A very expressive Vosne Village made from a vineyard that used to be a part of the park around Château Vosne-Romanee. It's a magnificent village ... one of the very best in my view ... often offering a forward and …
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The first impressions I get from the new vintage is often an extensive tasting at Maison Philippe Pacalet. The wines from Pacalet are perfect for this purpose as the finish malolactic fermentation very early and even more importantly they have a very pure and clear expression of the vintage and the …
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On my March trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure to revisit Chantereves- one of the rising stars within the world of micro negociants. Tomoko explaining about the new wine Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Damodes Chantereves, Savigny, Rhingau and Japan Chantereves is a small negociant located in a …
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