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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
Louis-Michel Liger-Belair is in my view producing one of the very best wines from the somewhat overlooked Vosne-Romanee Les Petits Monts. First vintage was 2006 starting out at a fine level with quality improving year after year arriving at a truly delightful level from 2010 and onwards. …
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The Clos du Chateau 2007 from Liger-Belair is a outgoing and quite organic wine. In the bouquet expressive red fruit .. quite floral with a magnificent display of Vosne spices and minerality. On the palate pure and organic fruit .. intense yet lightfooted with a fine focusing acidity. It take some …
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La Romanee 2013 is a as always quite a step up from the Echezeaux ... to a more serious yet also refined level. In the bouquet layers of very intense fruit - notes of boysenberries, cherries, violets and peony rose - brought forward by a very refined mineral infused acidity. On the palate layers of …
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The Echezeaux is one of the highlights in the 2013 Liger-Belair lineup - made from old vines in the climates Cruots, Champs Traversin and a small plot in Clos St. Denis. In the bouquet layers of juicy and quite vibrant red and dark fruits - notes of boysenberries, pomegranate - energized by a …
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The Aux Reignots is a serious and powerful wine in 2013 ... darker and more densely knit than in the recent vintages. In the bouquet mineral infused dark berry fruit - somewhat reduced currently - intense and powerful with a nice floral touch. On the palate layers of relatively dark fruit - well …
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