I have made it my "calling" to discover emotional wines for you to seek out and enjoy in your personal hedonistic quest. These vins d'émotion have nerve, tension, and energy behind their hedonistic intensity. I hope they evoke your passion: the passion to explore and the passion to have another …
Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
Terroir Insight: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair’s Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts
Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair is back as a producer of Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts after 89 years of absence. The estate will expand in 2022, with 2.65 hectares of new plots in prominent vineyards, including its first plots in Grands Echezeaux, Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts, La Croix Rameau, …
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Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Expanding with New Vineyards
Exciting news from Vosne-Romanée: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair will expand, with 2.65 hectares of new plots in prominent vineyards. Louis-Michel Liger-Belair will get his first plots in Grands Echezeaux, Vosne-Romanée Les Malconsorts, La Croix Rameau and Aux Reas. Furthermore, the estate is …
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2020: Cool in a Hot Year – Elaborated
The 2020 vintage is a serious and somewhat scary beast - to me at least- coming as it does after the outstandingly great red 2019s. Don't get me wrong: I think the 2020s are very, very good, and sometimes even better than the 2019s. It's seemingly a cooler year, and a vintage that often talks to …
Domaine Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée Clos du Chateau 2007 in magnum
I shouldn't. I really shouldn't. We all do it - and perhaps should do it more! This time, a 2007 magnum from Vosne-Romanee. Summer wines are casual, and for drinking with no remorse: Taste and drink with pleasure and joy rather than thinking of value and future potential. Wines should be there to …
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