CLOS VOUGEOT
2005 Grand Cru Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Côte d'Or |
| Sub-district | Côte de Nuits |
| Village | Vougeot |
| Classification | Grand Cru |
| ABV | 13.5% |
| Vineyard | Clos Vougeot |
Fascinating cherry and mineral nose, palate firm and rather closed, but all there - delicate as well as powerful. Intense. Lots going on, and lovely length. Drinking range: 2025 - 2040 L&S (Dec 2006)
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Good full red. Reticent, pure nose hints at crushed stone and minerals. Ripe, sweet black cherry flavor shows a sappy quality and an intriguing saline nuance. Very closed now but finishes chewy and long. This boasts excellent volume but I find it less aromatic and fine than the 2006. For his part, Liger-Belair describes it as more modern. Drinking range: 2025 - 2040 Rating: 91 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2008)
Good full red. Reticent, pure nose hints at crushed stone and minerals. Ripe, sweet black cherry flavor shows a sappy quality and an intriguing saline nuance. Very closed now but finishes chewy and long. This boasts excellent volume but I find it less aromatic and fine than the 2006. For his part, Liger-Belair describes it as more "modern." Rating: 91 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2007)
Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair
Thibault Liger-Belair has two hectares in Les Saint Georges, the vineyard which gives Nuits the rest of its name, and 60 ares out of a total of 4 hectares of the Grand Cru Richebourg, as well as a good holding in the Clos Vougeot and some well-placed village wines. The vineyards are a good start, but it is Thibault himself who has catapulted this domaine straight into the very top echelons of Côte de Nuits domaines from his first vintage (2002). Thibault was trained as an oenologist but first worked as a wine buyer. He has come to wine making with a wide experience of wine buying, and has had the advantage of having discussed wine-making for many years, with the benefit of his oenological background, with some of the best winemakers of the world. Viticulture is biodynamic (since 2005), yields low but not ludicrously low, everything is pragmatic, so that he should be doing just what is necessary and no more. He uses 40-50% new wood maximum. The wines are bright, pure, focused, aromatic and elegant without lacking anything in the way of stuffing.
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