MOREY SAINT DENIS
2016 Vieilles Vignes Domaine Lignier-Michelot
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Côte d'Or |
| Sub-district | Côte de Nuits |
| Village | Morey Saint Denis |
| ABV | 13% |
From three parcels - Tres Girard, Chenevery and Cognées, all over 60 years old. Again a great, precise attack. Lovely, cleanly delineated fruit. Red and pert - then some more leafy, crunchy black-currents. A smoky lift of grippier matter joins in and builds the breadth and depth. Finishes with beautifully ripe, dense fruit. A super richness - but the lovely acidity means there is no fat or excess heft. L&S (Oct 2017)
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Once again there is enough reduction to suppress the expressiveness of the nose that barely reveals its notes of plum, black cherry and spice – here too I would advise giving this a brief aeration. There is both excellent power and mid-palate concentration to the sappy and mouth coating middle weight plus flavors that flash a taut muscularity on the clean, dry and wonderfully long if somewhat rustic finish. This robust effort also offers excellent quality for a villages level Morey. Drinking range: 2024 - Rating: 89 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2019)
(from Très Girard, Les Cognées and the village portion of Les Chenevery; 80% vendange entier): Healthy medium red. Aromas of dark raspberry, redcurrant, mocha and spices, plus a whiff of chocolate. Plush, silky wine with fresh flavors of crushed red berries complicated by a leathery nuance. Showing more tannins than the Rue de Vergy but this is also impressively horizontal on the back end. The yield here was a full 48 hectoliters per hectare. Drinking range: 2019 - 2026 Rating: 90 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2018)
The 2016 Morey St Denis Vieilles Vignes, which includes 70% whole bunch, has a taut and linear bouquet with dark fruit, blackberry and bilberry, hints of soy and autumn leaves (from the whole bunch component). The palate is fresh on the entry, the tannins a touch softer than the La Rue de Vergy, quite focused with blackberry, graphite and sous bois notes toward the finish that becomes spicier with aeration. Very fine. Drinking range: 2020 - 2035 Rating: 91-93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)
Domaine Lignier-Michelot
A domaine of 11 hectares, 25% regionals, 50% Villages, 20% Premiers crus and 5% Grands Crus. Virgile Lignier worked at the domaine with his father Maurice from 1988, beginning to bottle some of the wine from 1992 (it had previously been sold to the négoce), taking over in 2000, which was the vintage when he first bottled all the domaine's production.
In the vineyard Virgile made significant changes, stopping the use of herbicides, and beginning to plough instead. Green harvesting to limits yields followed, along with greater attention to grape selection. The domaine works organically except in extremis.
The wines have a lovely combination of enough body and richness, combined with a lively clarity of expression. The old vines village cuvées are seriously good, and great value too. Going up the scale each site seems to speak very clearly of its source and there is a brightness and energy along with full, seamless fruit.
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2014 MOREY SAINT DENIS 1er Cru Faconnières Domaine Lignier-Michelot
Côte d'Or Burgundy France 13% Red
Pinot Noir.
Colour is very dark. Nose of black fruit, palate mineral, lifted, airy, floating. One would never tire of this - it seems to be bottled energy and light. A sort of blackberry jelly fruit on the finish which is still dry...(read more)
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2019 MOREY SAINT DENIS Rue de Vergy Domaine Lignier-Michelot
Côte d'Or Burgundy France 13% Red
Pinot Noir. Magnums
70% whole bunch. From above Clos de Tart. The first thing Virgile picked in this vintage, which is understandable as it is well exposed and on thin soil over rock. Drought was a problem here in 2020. Quite firm, with a c...(read more)
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