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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Comte de Vogue Musigny 1997 was a pleasent surprise. Quite open and reasonably accessible. Tasted last at new year 2010/2011, and at that time it was very closed and disapointing. This example was starting to get mature tones, a little sweetness, and above all it was fairly accommodating. This wine …
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Fanny Sabre, Pommard VV 2007, a lovely hippie wine (organic) from a for me unknown producer. Very interesting wine, not the greatest terroir, but is a clean and honest wine - with good balance and freshness. Definitely a producer to keep an eye on. Good to very good. (2014 - 2020) - 87p …
Georges Roumier Les Gras 2000 (89p), a fine mature Burgundy. Not a big wine, but very tasty as a mature Roumier almost always is. Pronounced sweet tones, forest, truffle ... so many good things in the complex Bouquet. Roumier very nice when they reach a certain level of maturity. Very good. (now - …
Louis Jadot Cazetiers 1990 a nice mature Burgundy, with the typical spicy Jadot style. Vintage and terroir is a perfect match, and the wine is now approaching its optimum - it will probably keep another 10 years, but will hardly get better. One can hope the hot 1999 wines evolves towards the …
Georges Roumier, Bonnes Mares 2007 (93p) was relatively closed, but still tasted good. A very fine wine, with even greater potential, and maybe it deserves a better rating .... but it really need more time. Very fine. (2018 - 2030) - 93p …
