2016 RICHEBOURG Grand Cru Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Lea & Sandeman

RICHEBOURG

2023 Grand Cru Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Vosne Romanée
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 13.5%
Vineyard Richebourg

Wow - this is remarkable for a Grand Cru barrel tasting. Explosive. So much going on here on the palate. Incredible energy. Seamless fruit. Great sweet middle. Plum skin. Blueberry ripe cherry. Aromatic and perfumed like a spray of atomised summer pudding. Intense Power so gently hiding in the background. Feels really open and charming. L&S (Nov 2024)


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Generously expressive with bushels of cherries and wild strawberries accented by perfume counter florals and asphalt, this has nicely digested its new oak and light, 10% whole cluster use. Caressing tannins and smooth acidity meld into the full body. Explosively rich, this needs time to roll out its lavish complexity. Rating: 96 Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Jan 2025)

Cask sample. Light to mid crimson. Intoxicating sweetness of cherries in alcohol though of course not that alcoholic. A fine contrast of savoury-sweet with a light herbal note adding freshness. Complex, layered and elegant. (JH) Drinking range: 2028 - 2040 Rating: 18 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2025)

(from a .55 ha parcel). An exuberantly floral-suffused and strikingly perfumed nose is at once spicy, elegant and cool with its beautiful array of red cherry, dark raspberry, sandalwood and exotic tea scents. In much the same fashion as the LSG, the sleek and detailed larger-scaled flavors are not particularly dense though the evident minerality helps to add a sense of lift to the superbly long and equally well-balanced finale. This does need to develop better depth so at least some forbearance is definitely in order. Drinking range: 2035 - Rating: 92-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2025)

Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Thibault Liger-Belair has two hectares in Les Saint Georges, the vineyard which gives Nuits the rest of its name, and 60 ares out of a total of 4 hectares of the Grand Cru Richebourg, as well as a good holding in the Clos Vougeot and some well-placed village wines. The vineyards are a good start, but it is Thibault himself who has catapulted this domaine straight into the very top echelons of Côte de Nuits domaines from his first vintage (2002). Thibault was trained as an oenologist but first worked as a wine buyer. He has come to wine making with a wide experience of wine buying, and has had the advantage of having discussed wine-making for many years, with the benefit of his oenological background, with some of the best winemakers of the world. Viticulture is biodynamic (since 2005), yields low but not ludicrously low, everything is pragmatic, so that he should be doing just what is necessary and no more. He uses 40-50% new wood maximum. The wines are bright, pure, focused, aromatic and elegant without lacking anything in the way of stuffing.

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