2017 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | Vosne Romanee les Suchots 1er cru

Description

Red Wine: 2017 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | Vosne Romanee les Suchots 1er cru

This wine is too ‘circulaire’ says Liger-Belair so he includes 15–25% stems. Less immediately aromatic than Les Chaumes.

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Producer: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair

Ratings: WA | 93

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

This wine is too ‘circulaire’ says Liger-Belair so he includes 15–25% stems. Less immediately aromatic than Les Chaumes.More initially oaky. There’s also a slight woody (not oaky) character. Feels a bit flatter on the palate than most in this line-up but it is still lithe and super-fresh. Slightly chewy finish

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2017 Vosne-Romanée Clos du Château is more floral and demonstrative, bursting with aromas of peony, rose petal, citrus rind, warm spices, grilled meats and espresso roast, with some berry fruit in a supporting role. On the palate, it’s medium to full-bodied, satiny and ample, with supple structuring tannins that are largely concealed by a succulent core of fruit. While the Clos du Château is planted with Pinot Droit on SO4 rootstock, Liger-Belair reliably renders his most charming, sensuous village bottling from this site.

Producer Information

Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, founded in 2000, is a relatively new wine producer in Burgundy, although the Liger-Belair family have owned vineyards in Vosne-Romanée since 1815. The domaine makes a range of grand and premier cru wines from vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanée, with the tiny monopole of La Romanée providing Comte Liger-Belair’s flagship wine.Louis Liger-Belair, a former general in Napoleon’s army, acquired a vineyard holdings during the state sell-off of estates confiscated under the French Revolution – including the impressive Château de Vosne-Romanée. The Liger-Belairs held a good portion of land in the southern Côte de Nuits in the 19th Century, owning La Romanée and La Tâche as well as large portions of Clos de Vougeot and Chambertin, and a handful of premier cru vineyards.Much of the land was sold off in 1933 under Burgundy’s complicated Napoleonic inheritance laws. What was left was farmed out to local vignerons and the wares sold to negociants.