This is yet another Beaujolais cru which develops with time into a glorious mouthful. |
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This area is home to the famous Clos de Vougeot, a former monastic settlement which has 120 acres of enclosed vineyard of grand cru status. |
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Cult Cabernets ruled, along with first growth Bordeaux and grand cru Burgundy. |
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It's a dandy little red wine that may remind you of a cru Beaujolais, but a bit spicier. |
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This is not as well served in Ireland, but considered the top cru by most, with prices to match for the best wine. |
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The grand cru is fought over every decade or so, with members being ousted and others elevated. |
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Today Chateau du Bergey represents a cru superieur which benefits of a well kept vinyard and the best vinification methods. |
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The real story of Beaujolais is found in the 10 cru wines named after villages, which have been the unwitting victims of decades of abuse of the Beaujolais name. |
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He reels off a long list of grand cru Burgundy he has in his collection. |
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But good heavens, how did the ancients work, so that, 80 years later, this cru could give us so much pleasure? |
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I grow wine on 20 hectares around Dalmach, where I produce a Frankstein grand cru used to make Gewurztraminer and Riesling. |
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The wines are continually tasted, and when he judges that they have reached their peak, they are carefully blended to create the chateau's premier cru vintage wine. |
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Georges Duboeuf, the best-known shipper in Beaujolais, would like to see the cru producers cut back to 40 hectoliters to a hectare. |
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Cherry red in colour with hints of ruby, this Fixin premier cru requires a little time to open out and reveal, on a delicately wooded background, its notes of cooked fruits and the thicket. |
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One of the largest own ers of grand cru vineyards, they also have prize par cels of premier cru across eight dierent terroirs and a agship Chablis, Chablis Saint Martin. |
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The Gamays from the Beaujolais Cru all express the soil in which they are planted and display a diversity of terroirs. |
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Although there are many hundreds of villages that make wine in Burgundy, very few have vineyards with Grand Cru status. |
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Its Burgundy Grand Cru glass is the only stemware that resides permanently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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In this taster's estimation, the top Premier Cru vineyards evoke the truest expressions of flavors and aromas that each Burgundian village offers. |
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Grand Cru Pfersigberg, a passionate marriage of great nobility with entrancing spicy and exotically fruity aromas. |
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This wine is well structured and corpulent, with long-lasting aromas and a fine representative of this famous Grand Cru. |
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Some of them are often better than the less dynamic members of the Grand Cru Classe club. |
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What Mr Michel ventured to call the Grand Cru Verhofstadt' ultimately turned out to be a cheap table wine. |
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Fifteen questions, both general and technical, concerning the Alsace winegrowing area, followed by a commented tasting of a wine, in this case a Riesling 2005 Grand Cru Brand, from the de Turckheim cellar. |
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Our range comprises Grand Cru Classés, a selection of the better Crus Bourgeois from the Médoc and their equivalent right bank wines, as well as our own exclusivities and some modern style discoveries. |
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