2022 Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, Le Clos du Prieuré, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Burgundy

Description

This interesting, rather remote 1.1-hectare vineyard in Arcenant sits on white marl and limestone. It is high (400 metres) and has a 40% slope, always achieving a good level of maturity. The nose is spicy, while the palate offers rich strawberry fruit on the attack, accompanied by intense limestone freshness in the background. It is fresh with broad shoulders and melting tannins.

Drink 2024 - 2030

Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2022

Maturity Not ready

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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Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits

Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits covers land in 19 communes, stretching from around the hill of Vergy in the north to Magny-lès-Villers. Arcenant is one of Hautes-Côtes de Nuits’ finest wine villages, and is also noted for the quality of its fruit-based liqueurs such as the Crème de Cassis from Jean-Baptiste Joannet.

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