Fine Wine > France > Burgundy

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How can Clos Vougeot VV be $59.95??? Simple – this is a village-level Vougeot, made outside the ‘Clos”, a Vougeot, but not a Clos Vougeot - and it’s an astounding bargain. ..

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The Chateau de Maltroye is a wonderfully restored bourgeois house. Built in the 18th century over the burnt-out ruin of a previous (15th century) building; the beautiful vaulted cellars date from that older house. The only parallels in Burgundy to such a house – immaculately and artistically..

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"Marchand's 2007 Morey-St.-Denis Clos des Ormes displays similarly bright red raspberry fruit with floral and herbal overtones to its 2008 counterpart. It comes to the palate slightly richer and denser and with intriguing, black tea-like smokiness, but lacks quite the clarity or nearly ethereal..

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"A very pure nose of wet stone, spice and an elegant mix of various wild red berries. There is good richness to the mouth coating flavors that possess excellent volume and surprisingly good power, all wrapped in a mineral-driven finish that delivers excellent length. This is a big Chambolle and an..

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"Relatively strong reduction hides all but the spice and wood toast notes. By contrast there is good volume and mid-palate concentration to the well-delineated, intense and seductively textured flavors that are supported by firm and reasonably refined tannins on the dusty and moderately austere..

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"Pascale Doney" is a new label from Domaine Matrot, named for Thierry Matrot's wife, Pascale. Thierry is the family winemaker, and his 2009 Santentots displays the best of what red Cote de Beaune and Premier Cru Volnay can offer: roses, black cherries, and currants on the nose, and all that plus..

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A rich wine…black fruit and spice aromas, backed up by woody and smoky notes. Powerful. The beautiful structure and big rich aromas are the proof of good cellaring potential.

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"An exceptionally fresh and elegant nose displays dried flowers, citrus and a hint of wet stone before sliding gracefully into detailed, racy and highly energetic flavors that offers the same minerality as suggested by the nose on the dry and moderately austere finish. An understated and..

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"(I tasted a sample from the second batch of this wine, bottled in October): Pale, bright yellow. Musky white peach and pear aromas complicated by nuances of tangerine, menthol, stone and flowers. Juicy, pure and intense, showing lovely vibrancy and inner-mouth tension. This classic Chassagne..