Winehog - with a passion
Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Below you will find all the wines tasted - aside from some wines tasted during the estate visits.
The wines taste during the recent estate visits can be found under the producer visit page.
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The Chassagne Clos Saint Jean 2010 from Paul Pillot is a pure, crisp and lovely wine. In the bouquet white flowers, pear and melon - spiced with a finely grained stony minerality. On the palate it's very focused with a quite lightfooted impression. It's very refined and racy, with a cool pure fruit, …
[Read more...] about Paul Pillot, Chassagne-Montrachet Clos Saint Jean 2010
The Batard-Montrachet from Domaine Leflaive is slightly closed - but nevertheless showing it's greatness. In the bouquet ripe and cool fruit - notes of orchard fruits - peach, pear, acacia, with a intense stony minerality and a twist of citrus zest. The nose is quite discrete, refined and very …
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I rarely drink red Chassagne - why? - I love a good red Chassagne-Montrachet but still they tend to get somewhat overlooked. The red Chassagnes often offers a lot of pinot pleasure - with a lovely expressive and charming fruit and a fine minerality. The generic Chassagne village 2010 from Ramonet is …
[Read more...] about Domaine Ramonet, Chassagne Montrachet Rouge 2010
The 2004 Vosne-Romanee La Colombiere from Liger-Belair is showing matured notes. The bouquet is open and charming with quite intense red fruit aromas - red and dark cherries, a hint of strawberries and raspberries - and a beautiful whiff of rose petals and Vosne spices. After some air the fruit on …
[Read more...] about Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Colombiere 2004
Lets face it ... I'm not a big admirer of the Pernand Vergelesses terroir - but this effort from Mongeard is actually a quite lovely wine. The Pernand Vergelesses Les Vergelesses 1er cru 2010 from Mongeard-Mugneret is a very expressive and straight forward pinot. In the bouquet cool red fruit - …
[Read more...] about Mongeard-Mugneret, Pernand Vergelesses 1er cru 2010
