The first "pre" harvests are reported ... Le Horees in Beaune already Friday 6th ... a Petit Début of the Vendange 2024 ... and most likely others are already doing small samplings for Pied de Cuve ... During the harvest I will post almost daily, with harvest "action" and impressions. It …
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The Recommender
I am not a wine critic ... I am a recommender ... I recommend the producers and wines that deserve to climb the golden ladder of fame and recommendation... nothing more and nothing less. The role of the critic is a road filled with dangers, and it should be taken very seriously indeed, as the …
2024 … harvest in a month +
The harvest 2024 will start during the first or the second week of September. In Nuits-Saint-Georges, it will be around September 10 - same says Olivier Lamy down south in Saint-Aubin - all depends on the big rain-man above. The whites seem to have coped better with the mildew and the generally …
Damn … too sticky and too ripe
Global warming is producing more and more phenolically ripe and richer wines. The wines are getting riper and riper, and those with lesser, or smaller, terroirs are losing the crucial balance between sweet ripe fruit and freshness in the form of acidity, terroir and energy. Let's face it ... in …
New times … changes
I have been testing some new formats on Winehog.org the last weeks, and changed a bit on the editing. Some you will no doubt notice ... as some of the formats did not survive the first week, as they started to annoy even me. So no more diary format ... as the majority of the readers decided …