2015 MOREY SAINT DENIS 1er Cru Charmes Domaine Lignier-Michelot, Lea & Sandeman

MOREY SAINT DENIS

2023 1er Cru Charmes 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 1er Cru
ABV 13.5%
Vineyard Charmes

Very close to Mazoyères, and on the same soil as Combottes. Quite pale in the glass, ripe, charming, calm and flattering, the fruit harder to discern than a sort of vinous minerality. Virgile remarks that this site can tend to heaviness in a ripe vintage, but that this treads the line. Drinking range: 2030 - L&S (Nov 2024)


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Medium deep ruby crimson. Rather an elegant bouquet. This is extremely stylish, medium density, slightly more red fruit than black, though as usual with some darker berries towards the back, very well managed in terms of the fruit-acid balance. A graceful medium-term Morey. Light on its feet. Drinking range: 2030 - 2035 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Nov 2024)

The 2023 Morey-Saint-Denis Aux Charmes 1er Cru contains around 80% stems that impart freshness and distinctive black pepper notes on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with light tannins. This is certainly one of the domaine's more approachable Premier Crus with a gentle landing on the strawberry-dominated finish. Give it a year or two in bottle and you'll be in business. Drinking range: 2026 - 2038 Rating: 89-91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2024)

Domaine Lignier-Michelot

A domaine now of 13.5 hectares, some owned, some in fermage with a little bought in. An average of 290 barrels a year. 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, so it's lutte raisonnée.

The wines are made with the least intervention possible, with lots of whole bunches. little extraction (one or two pigeages but mostly he's into remontages, then aged in barrel with 15-20% new wood. They 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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