The wine region of Vougeot Premier Cru is located in the region of Vougeot of Burgundy of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bertagna or the Domaine Bertagna produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Vougeot Premier Cru are Pinot noir et Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. In the mouth of Vougeot Premier Cru is a powerful with a nice freshness.
We currently count 7 estates and châteaux in the of Vougeot Premier Cru, producing 8 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Vougeot Premier Cru go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Total sales at the Hospices de Nuits-St-Georges 2022 auction reached €2.49m ($2.74m) from 109 ‘pièces‘ of wines from the Burgundy 2021 vintage, said organisers. Held on Sunday 20 March, sales rose by nearly 30% on last year’s auction, which hit €1.9m from 114 pièces of 2020-vintage wines. One pièce is equivalent to 288 bottles. Sales were €1.6m back in 2020, and this year’s record total is more evidence of Burgundy’s strong momentum on the fine wine market. It also suggests the annua ...
The final 11-strong shortlist includes four drink books – Wines of the Rhône by Matt Walls; The South America Wine Guide by Amanda Barnes; Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris MW and Foot Trodden by Simon J Woolf & Ryan Opaz. Commenting on the shortlist, Nicholas Lander, chair of the André Simon Memorial Fund, said: ‘A number of this year’s food and drink nominees, including Wines of the Rhône, address the urgent environmental and global issues of today in ways that are original, inspiring an ...
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
