One year with the WineHog

Time really flies … and it’s now exactly one year since I launched WineHog.org in Juliy 2011. During this year I realized that blogging about fine wine is quite a lot of hard work, but fortunately also very rewarding and a lot of fun.

I have tasted a lot of good wines during the first year, and sometimes it has been hard to find the time to publish all the notes.

Anyhow the numbers speak for themselves – 435 posts and more than 11000 visits to the site since I decided to go public with my tasting notes.

The best moments

The past year have given me a lot of fine wine moments, and it’s hard to rank these.

The visits to the very helpfull and fine produceres in Burgundy are however the very foundation for this blog. I have been lucky to visit some of the finest producers, and also participated in this years Grand Jours de Bourgogne.

Producer visits

• Visit to Domaine Georges Glantenay – Tasting the 2023s
• Visit to Cécile Tremblay – Tasting the 2023s from Cask
• Visit to Domaine Y. Clerget – Tasting the 2023s
• Visit to Domaine Georges Noëllat – Tasting the 2023s from Cask
• Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair 2023s
• Visit to Domaine Cathiard – Tasting the 2023s from Cask
• Visit to Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet – Tasting the 2023s
• Visit to Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont – Tasting the 2023s
• Clos des Lambrays … a new star of Morey
• Visit to Domaine Gérard Mugneret – Tasting the 2023s

Thanks to Wine friends for all the support

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all wine friends for the support and help the first year. Special thanks to Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, Philippe Pacalet, Caroline Lestimé, Jean-Luc Pepin and Anne Gros for the fine tastings and hospitality during 2010 and 2011.

I also would like to thank the Facebook groups Burgundy Geeks, Vosne Romanee and Bourgogne/Burgundy for the support and discussions during the last 12 month – a lot of new wine friends – cheers to all of you – from all of me!