2022 MOREY SAINT DENIS Rue de Vergy Domaine Lignier-Michelot, Lea & Sandeman

MOREY SAINT DENIS

2022 Rue de Vergy 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%
Vineyard Rue de Vergy

3 plots in Vergy – 1 touches Clos de Tart, 1 in the middle and 1 at the top. Vines more than 55 years old. Higher – lots of minerality. Virgile thinks this will be one of the better lieu-dits in Morey with global warming.
Dark intense power. Incredibly suave. Mulberries and blackberries, with a sort of suede-like smoothness to the tannins. So sophisticated. The same finesse and delicacy found in the Chambolle follows through here. So fine. L&S (Dec 2023)


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At least 50% whole bunch and 15–20% new oak. Cask sample. Mouth-watering dark-red fruits, marked freshness but all in balance. Firm, chewy, all in embryo and balanced for the future. (JH) Drinking range: 2028 - 2037 Rating: 17 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Feb 2024)

Cask sample. From a beautifully placed lieu-dit, fine, fragrant and concentrated. Lovely village wine with real potential and worth the money. GV (AWH) Drinking range: 2026 - 2032 Rating: 17+ Andy Howard MW, JancisRobinson.com (Feb 2024)

Brilliant – this is one of my wines of the week. With a thoroughly grand feel throughout, this tiny plot of land is exceptional, and in Virgile Lignier’s hands, it is superb and thrilling value for money. It is lovely, but for just £15 more per bottle, you must secure stock of my featured wine. With a superbly classy perfume and a sleek palate, this is a laser-sighted wine, and even the 2022 conditions could not put this lieu-dit off its stride. Rating: 18 Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (Jan 2024)

Domaine Lignier-Michelot

A domaine now of 13.5 hectares, some owned, some in fermage with a little bought in. An average of 290 barrels a year. 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, so it's lutte raisonnée.

The wines are made with the least intervention possible, with lots of whole bunches. little extraction (one or two pigeages but mostly he's into remontages, then aged in barrel with 15-20% new wood. They 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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