2015 Morey-St Denis, Aux Charmes, 1er Cru, Lignier-Michelot, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
- Neal Martin MW
- 91-93/100
Product: 20158029779
Description
Fine mid-purple, there’s a touch of oak on the nose mixed in with the fruit. The wine had 50 percent whole-bunch fermentation, with old-vine fruit. Quite full, this is a rounded, approachable, gracious Morey-St Denis with persistence. Drink 2021-2027.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Virgile Lignier began picking on 9th September, bringing in normal yields if a bit below 2014. Virgile reports small berries, an entirely healthy crop, potentially as good as 2005 but with a better quality of tannins. He worked on very careful extraction to manage them, using a bit more whole-cluster (especially with old vines on clay rich soil), longer cuvaison, but no punching down except at the very end of fermentation. He uses 30 percent new wood throughout the cellar.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Virgile Lignier began picking on 9th September, bringing in normal yields if a bit below 2014. Virgile reports small berries, an entirely healthy crop, potentially as good as 2005 but with a better quality of tannins. He worked on very careful extraction to manage them, using a bit more whole-cluster (especially with old vines on clay rich soil), longer cuvaison, but no punching down except at the very end of fermentation. He uses 30 percent new wood throughout the cellar.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Lignier-Michelot
Critics reviews
Neal Martin MW 91-93/100
The 2015 Morey Saint Denis 1er Cru Aux Charmes, the last vineyard before you cross the border into Mazoyres-Chambertin, includes around 40% whole bunch fruit this year. It has a pastille-like purity on the nose: outgoing scents of crushed strawberry and raspberry preserve, clementine and a touch of iris. There is lovely definition and purity in situ. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, crisp red cherry and black pepper notes on the tip of the tongue, plenty of energy, although it just tapers in towards the finish, perhaps saving something for later. One of Virgile Lignier's more elegant contributions to the vintage.Neil Martin - 28/12/2016
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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Domaine Lignier-Michelot
Virgile Lignier has worked alongside his father since 1988, really taking charge from 2000 by which time all the wines were being bottled at the domaine. Significant advances were made in the vineyards, reducing yields and ploughing the soil, along with the introduction of a sorting table and a higher percentage of new wood in the cellar. Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
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