2022 HAUTES CÔTES DE NUITS Clos du Prieuré Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13%
Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2022 Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Clos du Prieuré comes from steep south-facing slopes and includes 50% whole clusters. This has a perfumed nose with rose petals infusing the lively red fruit. It just needs a l...(read more)
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2022 HAUTES CÔTES DE NUITS Corvée de Villy Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13%
Red
Pinot Noir.
This is 450m up, above Nuits Saint Georges on almost pure limestone and is exactly the sort of wine I wish I had been given as an introduction to outstanding Burgundy. The altitude and the rocky soil, combined with the h...(read more)
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2022 LADOIX La Toppe d’Avignon Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13.5%
Red
Pinot Noir.
A new sharecropping contract from 2022 on vines from the 1960s. 50% whole bunch vinification. Brilliant purple colour with very clean fruit on the nose. A depth of concentrated raspberry and strawberry, some tannins stil...(read more)
Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
2020 NUITS SAINT GEORGES Charmotte Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13.5%
Red
Pinot Noir.
On the north side of the combe which cuts into the hillside above Nuits, a vineyard with 40-50cm of clay over the rock. Thibault put 40% of whole bunches into this. A very Vosne-side style here, a wine all in silk and el...(read more)
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2022 VOSNE ROMANÉE Aux Réas Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
14%
Red
Pinot Noir.
0.55 hectares on the Nuits Saint Georges end of Vosne Romanee next to the Clos de Reas. The vines were planted in 1956 giving a lot of concentration to this wine, which is on limestone. There is a slight reduction here,...(read more)
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2021 NUITS SAINT GEORGES 1er Cru Les Saint Georges Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13.5%
Red
Pinot Noir.
So elegant. Not brutal at all. Finesse, a little point of sweet ripeness, it's a délice in many ways, but backed up by raw power on the finish - but it's all done so suavely. Very long.
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2022 LADOIX La Toppe d’Avignon Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13.5%
Red
Pinot Noir.
Magnums
A new sharecropping contract from 2022 on vines from the 1960s. 50% whole bunch vinification. Brilliant purple colour with very clean fruit on the nose. A depth of concentrated raspberry and strawberry, some tannins stil...(read more)
Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
2017 NUITS SAINT GEORGES 1er Cru Les Saint Georges Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Côte d'Or Burgundy France
13.5%
Red
Pinot Noir.
Jeroboam
Thibault has 2 hectares here - and he is much more upbeat this year as it gave him 27 barrels in 2017 after the tiny haul of just 8 in 2016! Much of the wines charm can be linked to the interesting soil here which has so...(read more)
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