Prices, awards … perhaps it’s in the end all self-branding and nice words! – however I do find it gratifying to promote new and talented estates and people.
So i have decided to start a new Winehog Award called the “Flavour of the year” an award I will give to new and talented producers in the greater Burgundy.
The 2018 flavour of the year award goes to Domaine Moron-Garcia in Nuits-Saint-Georges – for wines from the 2017 vintage.
The motivation is that Moron-Garcia produce vivid, energetic wines with character and substance. The wines has a lovely complexity and a style quite unique for the estate, and the wines are made with refinement and a lovely expression of terroir. The wines do have quite some substance and do have more weight and depth than quite many modern wines of Burgundy today.
More info on Moron-Garcia can be found here
Previous and future winners
This is a new award … and therefore there are no older winners … but estates like Chantereves, Nicolas Faure and Domaine Thomas Collardot in Puligny-Montrachet would indeed have been favourites for the “flavour of the year” – as will Domaine Marthe Henry Boillot perhaps be when we get some more bottled wines from her.
Tasting Notes for this producer
- Visit to Domaine Anne Gros – Tasting the 2022s March 28, 2024
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2022s February 16, 2024
- Domaine Nathalie & Gilles Fevre Chablis 2022 July 6, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2019 July 4, 2023
- Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée Saint-Vivant 2008 June 3, 2023
- Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Montrachet 2007 June 3, 2023
- Domaine de Montille Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Saint-Juliens 2019 May 16, 2023
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2022s from Cask May 4, 2023
- Domaine Jean Fournier Marsannay Les Longeroies 2015 Version Originale April 25, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée 2014 April 15, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Cras 2014 April 15, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2014 April 14, 2023
- Domaine Michel Voarick Corton-Charlemagne 2008 April 14, 2023
- Domaine Prieure-Roch Vosne-Romanee Hautes-Maizières 2012 April 13, 2023
- Domaine Prieure-Roch Clos de Vougeot 2009 April 13, 2023
- Marthe Henry Boillot Aligote 2019 March 26, 2023
- Domaine Antoine Lienhardt Côte de Nuits villages Les Plantes Aux Bois 2021 March 25, 2023
- Case Basse Soldera Toscana IGT 2018 March 23, 2023
- Domaine Camp-Atthalin Savigny-les-Beaune Les Prévaux 2019 March 23, 2023
- Domaine Antoine Lienhardt Emphase 2021 March 21, 2023
- Domaine J.-F. Mugnier, Nuits-Saint-Georges Clos de la Marechale 2019 March 21, 2023
- Theo Dancer Bourgogne Blanc 2020 March 21, 2023
- M & C Lapierre Beaujolais 2021 March 20, 2023
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée Clos du Château 2014 October 25, 2022
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2021s October 24, 2022
- Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée La Colombière 2009 October 21, 2022
- Visit to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – Tasting the 2021s from Cask July 12, 2022
- Exploring the Domaine Tawse Musigny June 14, 2022
- On the Table, In the Glass #36: Un Vrai Vin de Soif June 6, 2022
- Domaine Charles Lachaux Côte de Nuits Villages Aux Montagnes 2019 April 3, 2022
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