2015 Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy

2015 Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy

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2015 Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy

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The 2015 Chambolle Musigny Vieilles Vignes comes from vines on the Morey side of the appllation and includes 50% whole cluster. I felt that the aromatics were a little diffuse when I tasted the wine, perhaps requiring the remainder of its barrel maturation to knit together. The palate is much better with crisp tannin, quite sharp dark cherry and raspberry fruit leading to a nicely focused, quite penetrating finish. There is good vigor here - it just needs the aromatics to up their game, which I am sure they will.
Neal Martin - 28/12/2016

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The 2015 Chambolle Musigny Vieilles Vignes comes from vines on the Morey side of the appllation and includes 50% whole cluster. I felt that the aromatics were a little diffuse when I tasted the wine, perhaps requiring the remainder of its barrel maturation to knit together. The palate is much better with crisp tannin, quite sharp dark cherry and raspberry fruit leading to a nicely focused, quite penetrating finish. There is good vigor here - it just needs the aromatics to up their game, which I am sure they will.
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About this WINE

Domaine Lignier-Michelot

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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Chambolle Musigny

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 

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Pinot Noir

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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