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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Dujac Gevrey Combottes 2006 is still quite dark and backward. The nose is offering dark ripe fruit, red and blue berries with some quite dense and sweet notes spiced by liquorice. On the palate dense red fruit with a good tannic balance. Quite undeveloped for a 06 - with the palate still showing …
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The Meursault En la Barre 2010 from Antoine Jobard is a quite beautiful Meursault village. In the nose good complexity - notes of apple, pear, hazelnuts with hints of exotic orchard fruits and a nice focusing minerality. On the palate very good power and concentration for this level. The fruit is …
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The Gevrey Chambertin Bel-Air from Pacalet is a beauty. The bouquet offer cool pure and focused fruit - pomegranate, strawberries, raspberries and allspice. On the palate tight and very focused - with a intense midpalate concentration of red fruit ... and a long lingering mineralic finish. Perfectly …
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The Pommard Clos des Epeneaux from Comte Armand is a classic Pommard - made from a 5 ha clos locaded in the climates Petit Epenots (80%) and Grands Epenots (20%). The bouquet offer dark fruit, with notes of blueberries, dark cherries and raspberries - and a slightly austere eathy minerality - …
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The Bonnes Mares 2004 from Bertheau is quite mature and almost ready to rock. The bouquet starts out with a hint of iodine - but after a few minutes the nose reveals openly knit red berry fruit, sous bois and a finely grained minerality. The palate show more expressive fruit - openly knit red fruit …
