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ALONG THE BURGUNDY TRAIL – VINTAGE 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2014 BURGUNDY VINTAGE DOMAINES AND NEGOCIANTS VISITED WINES TASTED AND TASTING NOTES 2014 DOMAINE DE LA ROMANÉE-CONTI HARVEST REPORT RECENT VINTAGES (2013 – 2007) HOW BURGUNDY IS TASTED FROM BARREL A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF BURGUNDY INTRODUCTION I first started going to Burgundy to taste wines from barrel in 1981. Since […]
Click here to read entire article »OLD RED BURGUNDIES PLUS A COUPLE OF ZINGERS AT TWO VERY DIFFERENT RESTAURANTS
Recently I attended two dinners. One was with my old friend and Underground contributing editor, John Brincko. John brought the red and I brought the white. The dinner was at the long established Vincenti Ristorante in Brentwood – Los Angeles, CA. The food and service here is consistently great as it was this evening. We […]
Click here to read entire article »DOMAINE COCHE-DURY & CORTON-CHARLEMAGNE: A MAGICAL COMBINATION
Recently, I attended a dinner at Melisse restaurant in Santa Monica, CA with four friends where we drank 7 vintages of Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne that were paired with superb food. That is the basis for this article. But, before I get into that, I would first like to make a few comments about Domaine Coche-Dury and […]
Click here to read entire article »OLD WHITE BURGUNDY
A Complex Tale of Two Wines With a Window Into Premox Recently I had an opportunity to drink 2 older White Burgundies. The wines were: 1992 Joseph Drouhin Corton Charlemagne and 1999 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet. They offered an interesting paradox into the current state of White Burgundy. 1992 Joseph Drouhin Corton Charlemagne Oxidized […]
Click here to read entire article »2004 WHITE BURGUNDIES: PREMOX OR NOT? THE BEAT GOES ON!
I had just posted my article on Premox (to read that article click here) when I set off to attend another tasting of the 2004 White Burgundies. I mentioned in the Premox article that Don Cornwell had been doing tastings each vintage of selected White Burgundies for several years. (To see that report click here) […]
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