2015 Clos Vougeot, Grand Cru, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Burgundy

Description

This year’s Clos Vougeot has an exceptionally deep, powerful perfume with nothing heavy or clumsy. On the palate the luxurious dark fruit is still quite impenetrable, suggesting a very long future, as do the moderately firm tannins behind. Everything is as it should be for a Grand Cru. Drink 2027-2038.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

While delighted with the health and quality of his grapes, Thibault felt that it was necessary to adopt a light hand with extraction this year, as phenolic ripeness was only just in place. Sugar levels were correct, acidity in the end just what was needed, so his wines have the typical energy of 2015. There are a few more whole bunches than usual. As always, the wines take longer in this cellar to come round but we were impressed with the potential.

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2015

Maturity Ready - youthful

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Medium Bodied

Producer Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 92-94/100

The 2015 Clos Vougeot includes 40% whole bunch (the highest percentage thus far) and a little less pigeage according to Thibault Liger-Belair. There was a touch of reduction here, something that Thibault said he wants to keep in the wine. Underneath there is certainly commendable vigor with traces of orange peel and even tangerine. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, a keen line of acidity, candied orange peel intermingling with strawberry and raspberry fruit, nicely poised and energetic all the way through to the focused finish. This is a very fine and lively Clos Vougeot.Neil Martin - 28/12/2016

Neal Martin MW, (Dec 2016)

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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