2005 Nuits-St Georges, La Charmotte, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Burgundy

Description

Although this is difficult to taste at this early stage, there is clearly an impressive depth of flavour in this wine. The already delicious and plump mouthful shows enjoyable fruit and very good length. This will be drinking beautifully from 2010-2015.

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2005

Maturity Ready - mature

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Full Bodied

Producer Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Critics reviews

David Schildknecht 88-90/100

The 2005 Nuits-St.-Georges La Charmotte offers somewhat reduced aromas of wood smoke and well aged game, along with ripe cherry and cherry pit. Tart fruit skin and high-toned inner-mouth esters, ashen smokiness, and rather somber notes of moss, forest floor and wet stone persist into a finish that approaches bitter concentration of fruit skin and mineral. This is highly impressive in its relatively dark, austere way, and would be fascinating to revisit in a few years.David Schildknecht - 29/06/2007

David Schildknecht, RobertParker.com (Jun 2007)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

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