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Blog posts of '2017' 'June'

1945 Chateau de la Tour Clos Vougeot

Clos Vougeot, the largest single Grand Cru vineyard in the Côte de Nuits designation. It is one of Burgundy's most historic walled vineyards. Did you know that between 1819 to 1869 Romanee-Conti was produced at Chateau Clos de Vougeot! We had the opportunity to taste the 1945 Clos Vougeot from 2 bot...

La Romanée-Conti, th? Grand Cru of Burgundy

The wines of the legendary Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - widely known as DRC - are the most sought-after and expensive wines in the world. The winery is located in Vosne-Romanée and since 2011 has it’s offices and main barrel cellar close to the town’s church.

The history of Domaine de la Romanée-C...

1945 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue

What a pleasure it was to taste a wine this old from an outstanding Burgundy vintage 1945!!!! Very popular, excellent vintage where the legendary wines have become very rare.Starting from a bottle with a less attractive filling level of minus 7 cm and damaged label.
In our minds we were already awa...

The story behind the wines of the ship 't Vliegent Hart

At Belgium Wine Watchers we love a good wine story. One of our favourite ones is about the wines of the ship ’t Vliegent hart or Flying Heart. The ship was an 18th century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company. On the third of February 1735 ’t Vliegent Hart, which was on its way to Batavia i...

How to read a French wine label

A wine label doesn’t tell you how the wine will taste but helps you understand what you are buying exactly. French wine labels contain a lot of information and if you just started to explore exclusive wines this may be confusing. In this blog we explain a few common French wine terms that make it ea...