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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Glantenay Bourgogne Pinot Noir "Maison Dieu" 2017 is a delightful wine, offering what I want to find in a 2017. It's fresh, vivid and lively with plenty of fruit and a quite impressive intensity for this level. A lovely Bourgogne in my view - drinking very well indeed. (Drink from 2019) - …
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The 2015 Bourgogne Rouge from Domaine Georges Noëllat is a quite powerful and energetic wine. The nose is quite forward - a bit on the rich side in the beginning - but does offer a lovely mineral note in the finish. A lovely and full wine for this level ... would leave it in the cellar for a couple …
[Read more...] about Domaine Georges Noëllat, Bourgogne 2015
First 2017 from bottle tasted in Denmark - the Bourgogne L'Equilibriste from Marc Soyad. Made from the young vines of Domaine de la Cras. A generous and vivid wine - slightly reductive initially. Starting with dark and vinous fruit ... but after some time it unfolds with cinnamon vivid in the mouth. …
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The last wine produced is the Bourgogne Aligoté - made from a "parcel" located on the "Colline de Vergy" in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, at the foot of the ruins of the Abbaye de Saint-Vivant. It's planted on a clay and limestone soil, rich in marl. This is a adorable Aligoté - so pure and …
[Read more...] about Domaine Bertrand Machard de Gramont, Aligote 2015
Starting out with the Bourgogne Pinot Fin 2015 - a tremendous generic wine from excellent plots below the road (D974) in Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanee and Nuits-Saint-Georges. The bouquet is forward and quite floral (80% Whole Cluster) offering a lovely expression of red and dark fruits and a …
[Read more...] about Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Bourgogne Pinot Fin 2015
