2022 Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy
Critics reviews
Gently extracted with only one punch down at the very end. Mid purple. Not much nose. Rich deep fruit on the palate, medium bodied with raspberries, easily accessible, then balanced by an attractive touch of acidity. Little pinpricks of fresh raspberry to finish.
Drink 2027 - 2033
Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy.com (November 2023)
From 50+ year old vines in Les Drazey and Gamaires; 80% whole clusters.
Ripe, fresh, and decidedly floral-suffused aromas are comprised by notes of plum, black raspberry, and spice. The succulent, rich, and attractively textured medium-weight flavours exude evident minerality on the youthfully austere, dusty, and noticeably more structured finale. This could use better depth, so a few years of keeping should help.
Drink from 2029 onward
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (January 2024)
The 2022 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes had no punch-downs during the fermentation and includes 80% whole bunches. It has a forward nose of blackberry, hints of cassis, and violet petals. The medium-bodied palate offers sapid black and red fruit, a touch of cracked black pepper, and quite a structured, Morey-like finish. Give this a couple of years in bottle. There is fine purity of fruit here.
Drink 2026 - 2038
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (January 2024)
15–20% new oak. Cask sample.
Mid crimson. Gorgeously seductive dark-red fruit with a lively peppery lift. Elegant rather than full-bodied, a revealer of the terroir. There is some sense of the oak here, but it is not out of place thanks to the pure, dark-red fruit. Peony fragrance on the finish. Persistent.
Drink 2028 - 2037
Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com (January 2024)
From half a hectare of Drazey (below Sentiers) and a hectare of Gamaires (lower down the slope), Lignier's 2022 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes offers aromas of dark berries, orange zest, and warm spices. Medium-bodied, lively, and concentrated, it's bright and pure, with a seamless profile. Amounting to some 35 barrels, this is one of the domaine's flagship bottlings.
William Kelley, Wine Advocate (January 2024)
About this WINE
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.
Chambolle-Musigny
Chambolle produces the most elegant wines in the Côte de Nuits, having more active chalk and less clay in the soil than the other villages. The wines may be a little lighter in colour and less tannic than Gevrey-Chambertin but they have a sublime concentration of fruit. Village Chambolle-Musigny usually provides excellent value.
Le Musigny is one of the top half-dozen vineyards in Burgundy, producing wines of extraordinary intensity and yet with a magical velvety character. Les Amoureuses is immediately appealing, a wonderfully sensual wine which deserves Grand Cru status. Bonnes Mares tends to have a firmer structure and ages very well
- 94 hectares of village Chambolle-Musigny.
- 61 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards (24 in all). The finest vineyards include Les Amoureuses, Les Charmes, Les Fuées, Les Baudes and Sentiers.
- 24 hectares of Grand Cru vineyard - Bonnes Mares and Le Musigny.
- Recommended producers: de Vogüé, Mugnier, Roumier, Barthod.
- Recommended restaurant: Le Chambolle
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.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
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Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
All the vines in this cuvée are between 65 and 70 years old and come from three plots on the northern side of Chambolle, close to Morey. There is a good depth of colour here, and it is classically Chambolle, with hints of dark red cherry fruit and a touch of engaging sweetness.
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