2018 Bourgogne Rouge, Les Grands Chaillots, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

Description

For more than two decades, Thibault Liger-Belair has been following organic and biodynamic practices. He believes that winemaking starts not with the fruit, but with the soil. “We all talk about terroir, but my focus is on the soil and putting what it needs first,” Thibaut explains. His wines are pure, focused and desirable.

One-third comes from vineyards in the Nuits-St Georges commune, two-thirds from Chambolle. There’s 20% whole-bunch, and a longer maceration this year, as well as some punching down for more extraction. A ripe and pretty bouquet, there’s rather more texture than in 2017. Very composed. Drink now to 2024.

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2018

Maturity Ready - mature

Grape List Pinot Noir

Body Medium Bodied

Producer Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

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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