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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
In my view, Romanée-Saint-Vivant is one of the most sensual and enchanting of the grands crus. The perfumed refinement of a great RSV is almost unmatched (aside from two monopoles just above the vineyard). Domaine J-J Confuron is one of the less prominent producers within this fine vineyard, and …
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Pommard is an appellation of clos (walled vineyards) and quite a few monopoles. While the definitions of clos and monopole are pretty clear and straightforward, the vineyards in Pommard sometimes take on somewhat strange permutations to attain these vaunted distinctions. A Wineghog reader …
[Read more...] about Comte Armand Clos des Epeneaux – the Monopole
One of the few lieu-dit vineyards in the central Dijon area is Montre-Cul, or Montrecul, located just at the city limit of Dijon. On the cadastre maps the vineyard is called En Montre-Cul, and it is both an adorable and somewhat "notorious" label. The red dot on the map above shows En Montre-Cul …
[Read more...] about Montre-Cul at the northern end of Burgundy
Aux Malconsorts is one of the most acclaimed 1er crus in Vosne-Romanée, and while there are quite a few newer owners, we also have older proprietors of this fine vineyard. One of those is Domaine Lamarche in Vosne-Romanée, which has two separate plots located in the southern end of the vineyard on …
[Read more...] about Terroir View: Domaine Lamarche Vosne Aux Malconsorts
There are the king, the queen and then the knights of Chambertin. Or to put it in local terms: Rousseau, Leroy and, amongst the knights perhaps the most difficult to find, Dugat-Py. In any case, certainly one of the rarest birds in the Burgundy vineyard. The mighty - and scarce - Dugat-Py …
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