2015 CLOS DE LA ROCHE Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot, Lea & Sandeman

CLOS DE LA ROCHE

2015 Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Morey Saint Denis
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Clos de la Roche

Wonderful nose, floral and fruity at once - real class. There's a sweetness here - but just a touch - a mouth-filling supple silky velvet dark berry fruit that is suave and grand in feel. Weighty but not heavy, bright but never 'tinny', a shape that is all long elegant sweeping curves. Very grand. Drinking range: 2025 - L&S (Nov 2016)


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Good full, bright red; the darkest of these 2015s. Inviting aromas of black raspberry, black cherry, chocolate and five-spice powder. Juicy and crunchy in the context of the vintage; dense and thick but not heavy, with its penetrating, fruit-driven flavors framed by surprising harmonious acidity and saline minerality. This very ripe and rather stylish Clos de la Roche finishes with substantial refined tannins and excellent length and lift. Like several other of these 2015s, this seems fresher in the bottle than it was from barrel in late 2016. Virgile Lignier vinified most of his 2015 crus with 70% or 80% whole clusters and as his stems were fully ripe owing to his late harvesting, they add an essential element of energy without introducing greenness into the wines. Drinking range: 2025 - 2037 Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2018)

Rating: 17+ Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (Feb 2017)

Cask sample. The nose is underwhelming at first - subtle, reclusive. There's a faint violet aroma and the requisite red fruit but not much else besides. Tight palate, but doesn't seem to have the depth and profundity expected from grand cru. Perhaps it just needs bottle age and optimism ... Drinking range: 2020 - 2035 Rating: 17+ Richard Hemming MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2017)

Domaine Lignier-Michelot

A domaine of 11 hectares, 25% regionals, 50% Villages, 20% Premiers crus and 5% Grands Crus. Virgile Lignier worked at the domaine with his father Maurice from 1988, beginning to bottle some of the wine from 1992 (it had previously been sold to the négoce), taking over in 2000, which was the vintage when he first bottled all the domaine's production.

In the vineyard Virgile made significant changes, stopping the use of herbicides, and beginning to plough instead. Green harvesting to limits yields followed, along with greater attention to grape selection. The domaine works organically except in extremis.

The wines have a lovely combination of enough body and richness, combined with a lively clarity of expression. The old vines village cuvées are seriously good, and great value too. Going up the scale each site seems to speak very clearly of its source and there is a brightness and energy along with full, seamless fruit.

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