2018 Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Burgundy

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Description

For more than two decades, Thibault Liger-Belair has been following organic and biodynamic practices. He believes that winemaking starts not with the fruit, but with the soil. “We all talk about terroir, but my focus is on the soil and putting what it needs first,” Thibaut explains. His wines are pure, focused and desirable.

The fruit here is from three of Thibault’s village vineyards – Fremières, Gamaires and Mal Carrées – all planted between 1954 and 1962. There is 40% whole-bunch and the wine is quite tight and assertive for a Chambolle. A real success in this vintage.

Drink 2021 - 2028

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2018

Alcohol % 14

Maturity Ready, but will improve

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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