2018 Corton, Clos du Roi, Grand Cru, Thibault Liger Belair Successeurs, Burgundy

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Description

This is Thibault’s third vintage of this wine, and he feels he now understands the vineyard much better than when he first made it. Fermentation was slow this year, which has given a wine of huge complexity and detail. There are lovely touches on the palate with creamy black cherry and delightful tannins which are initially intensely silky before transforming into firm, rocky, limestone layers that coat the palate. Drink 2024-2032.

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2018

Alcohol % 13.5

Maturity For laying down

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Medium Bodied

Producer Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

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