The Grands-Echezeaux is somehow the slightly overlooked wine in the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti lineup. It is however a magnificent wine in its own right, but is of course somewhat overshadowed by the four top reds - Richebourg, Romanee Saint-Vivant, La Tâche and Romanee-Conti. In this article I …
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Terroir insight – Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus
This is a new format on the blog ... articles where the location of the terroir of one wine is uncovered in depth and detail. First out is the Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus, one of the relatively few single climate and single plot Echezeaux's on the market. …
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La Tâche – a historic view on a legendary grand cru
La Tâche is a legendary grand cru with a quite interesting history. It has always been a monopole - but nevertheless the monopole status have been challenged and the vineyard expanded quite dramatically within the last 100 years. The history of La Tâche involves some of the most prominent …
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Pinot Noir in Puligny-Montrachet – a red Les Caillerets!!
Pinot Noir from Chassagne-Montrachet is well known and often provide great pleasure - but red Puligny-Montrachet is virtually unknown today. Today the village Puligny-Montrachet is associated with gorgeous white Burgundies ... and some of the best white wines in the world. This was however not the …
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Fixin Clos de la Perriére … the forgotten Téte de Cuvée
In 1855 when Lavalle made his classification of the Burgundy vineyards only a few vineyards outside the "main" appellations were classified as Téte de Cuvée. One of these vineyards is located in Fixin and is unknown to most Burgundy connaisseurs today ... Fixin La Perriére better known as Fixin …
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