2007-NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES-1er-Cru-Les-Saint-Georges-Domaine-Thibault-Liger-Belair

NUITS SAINT GEORGES

2007 1er Cru Les Saint Georges Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Nuits Saint Georges
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Les Saint Georges

Another brilliant example of this wine, backward and undeveloped, yet rich, with density and power, but this is so beautifully balanced that it is easy, delicate, soft. Blackberry and cherry mix with gliding minerals in a lovely voluptuousness, just kept in check by a tannic frame on the finish. L&S (Dec 2008)


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Good full red. Sweet, deep, high-toned aromas of ripe red berries, maraschino cherry and leather; less black in character than it was from barrel last year. The high-toned quality carries through onto the palate, which offers very good depth to the exotic red fruit and spice flavors. Quite large-scaled for Saint-Georges but not heavy. The slightly edgy tannins here would appear to require at least a few years of patience. A perfect example of Liger-Belair's assertion that the 2007s are simpler and less intellectual wines than the more serious 2008s. I wonder if this could have been bottled earlier. Rating: 91 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2010)

Good full red. Cool aromas of black fruits, violet, menthol and mint. Spicy, juicy and penetrating, with lovely fresh acidity framing and lifting the cassis, blackberry, mineral and floral flavors. Wonderfully pure, perfumed wine with terrific energy and length. Liger-Belair ranks this with the '05 as his best vintage from these vines. Rating: 90-93 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2009)

Deep and rich and very exotic and puts the simplicity of most 2007s into perspective, Long and dry on the finish. Very exciting. 2012-2016 Rating: 18 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2009)

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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