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Burgundy 2018 – Mi–O

Cataldina Lippo and Vincent Monfort

For the rest of these alphabetically grouped tasting articles, and more general articles on Burgundy 2018, see our guide. Pictured right are Cataldina Lippo, winemaker at Domaine Monthelie-Douhairet-Porcheret, with her Belgian husband Vincent Monfort.

The wines are grouped alphabetically by producer (sur)name and within those groups are ordered whites before reds, ascending from generic through village, premiers and grands crus. You can change the order as you prefer using the menu below.

Domaine Michelot (Meursault)

 

Good intensity of fruit as well as freshness and balance. Very...

Very nervy nose. Juicy and tense. Racy but with sufficient...

Domaine François Mikulski (Meursault)

A touch of almost tropical fruit with an aromatic, basil-like...

Gentle nutty oak and chalk complexity over lemon fruit. Some...

Almond and a touch of dried dill. Crisp, flinty and chewy, with...

Apple and hazelnut, spice and stones. Feels a little spiky and...

Baking spice and oatmeal, linear, precise citrus acidity, with a...

Bottled. Cinnamon and ripe red cherry. Grainy, firm palate with...

Bottled. Ripe, scented strawberry and fine cinnamon spice. Fluid...

Millemann Wine

Made by consultant oenologist Pierre Millemann as part of a new...

100% new oak. Same parcel as for 2017. 70–80% whole bunch...

50-year-old vines. Barrel sample from the one barrel produced...

Barrel sample from the single barrel produced.
So different...

Domaine Jean-Marc Millot (Nuits-St-Georges)

Bottled. Classic, fragrant, dark and lightly peppery fruit...

Spicy, meaty and a bit volatile. Very chewy, grainy, rustic...

Some reduction obscures the earthy, spicy, savoury nose. Chunky...

The contrast with Aux Faulques, tasted alongside, could not be...

Mid crimson. Riper and darker than the Côte de Nuits-Villages...

Precise nose of ripe blackberries and crushed rock, with a fudgy...

Lots of oak showing on the nose, a full style with plenty of...

Nutty oak, earthy mineral notes, black fruit; quite broad and...

Domaine de Moirots (Bissey-sous-Cruchard)

Green-fruits freshness and cedar-like pristine fruit. Pure...

Deep purplish crimson. Rich and dark and lightly oaky on the...

Deep purplish crimson. More subtle and scented than the village...

Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret (Vosne-Romanée)

Hefty tannic fur on the palate, with simple bitter-cherry fruit...

Overripe, mushy fruit that evokes the Yarra or Central Coast in...

Sweet oak spice and a gobful of mouth-filling, ripe black-cherry...

Ripeness that verges on jammy on the nose, although the palate...

Domaine

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