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Visiting Domaine Marc Roy is always a pleasure. Alexandrine Roy knows what she is doing, and she knows how to make and sell her wines: through quality, hedonism, joyfulness and charm. Some history of the Marc Roy estate Alexandrine is the fourth generation at the domaine. She is runs it …
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The 2022s are receiving quite a lot of acclaim already, and some of the wines are without doubt outstandingly good I have however decided to downgrade my score for the 2022 vintage “a notch” ... and here is why! There is a tedious or even annoying issue with some of the 2022s reds ... as …
The 2013 vintage was an unlikely candidate for vintage of the moment or vin d'émotion when the wines were launched, as many of the reds were slightly or quite extracted and edgy. Many of them are now mature or close to full maturity. Both red and whites offer a gorgeous cool complexity of mature …
The 2017 vintage is turning into a veritable treasure chest of gorgeously expressive reds and whites. They are not fully mature but many of them can be smashingly beautiful. They have a gorgeously playful fruit with lovely and lively complexity. Global warming sweetness is under reasonable …
The disastrous 2024 vintage has set the 2023 vintage in an even more attractive and favorable light. The 2023s, in many ways, can supply what Burgundy will now be lacking: wine! The 2024 vintage will be extremely small, especially for the reds, whereas 2023 has reds and whites in abundance (let's …
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