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2020 Morey-St Denis, Aux Charmes, 1er Cru, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful (Drink 2025 - 2043)
Allen Meadows
90-93/100
Jasper Morris MW
91-94/100
Product: 20208029779

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2020 Morey-St Denis, Aux Charmes, 1er Cru, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy

Description

Morey’s Aux Charmes can be seen as a continuation of Mazoyères in neighbouring Gevrey (which itself can also be called “Charmes”). Virgile describes this as very “zen”: comfortable in its own skin and full of grace. It’s hard not to be seduced by the perfume here, and the tannins simply roll over the tongue.

Drink 2028 - 2042

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready - youthful (2025 - 2043)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Lignier-Michelot

Critics reviews

Allen Meadows 90-93/100

From 50 year old vines.

Here the expressive nose is aromatically similar to the Aux Chezeaux if perhaps even earthier. The medium weight flavors possess a seductively textured, even caressing, mid-palate along with excellent volume while exhibiting even better length on the youthfully austere, firm and well-balanced finale that offers just a bit more depth.

Drink from 2030 onward.
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (Jan 2022)
Jasper Morris MW 91-94/100

Picked 30th August just under 13%. Two thirds whole bunch. Dense ripe raspberry fruit, feels like it will be lush but it is not too exaggerated. Fine and long here, all very nicely balanced with a return of red fruit at the finish, along with complementary acidity.
Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy (Jan 2022)

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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Domaine Lignier-Michelot

Virgile Lignier has worked alongside his father since 1988, really taking charge from 2000 by which time all the wines were being bottled at the domaine. Significant advances were made in the vineyards, reducing yields and ploughing the soil, along with the introduction of a sorting table and a higher percentage of new wood in the cellar. Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
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