2005 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | Les Chaumes

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Red Wine: 2005 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | Les Chaumes

This exceptional vintage reveals a captivating bouquet of ripe red cherries, earthy undertones, and subtle hints of spice, all underpinned by a refined minerality.

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Producer: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair

Vintage: 2005

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Cote de Nuits

This exceptional vintage reveals a captivating bouquet of ripe red cherries, earthy undertones, and subtle hints of spice, all underpinned by a refined minerality. With its velvety texture and harmonious balance, this wine offers layers of complexity and a lingering finish, showcasing the mastery of the Liger-Belair estate.

Producer Information

Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, founded in 2000, is a relatively new wine producer in Burgundy, although the Liger-Belair family have owned vineyards in Vosne-Romane since 1815. The domaine makes a range of grand and premier cru wines from vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romane, with the tiny monopole of La Romane providing Comte Liger-Belair’s flagship wine. Louis Liger-Belair, a former general in Napoleon’s army, acquired a vineyard holdings during the state sell-off of estates confiscated under the French Revolution including the impressive Chteau de Vosne-Romane. The Liger-Belairs held a good portion of land in the southern Cte de Nuits in the 19th Century, owning La Romane and La Tche as well as large portions of Clos de Vougeot and Chambertin, and a handful of premier cru vineyards. Much of the land was sold off in 1933 under Burgundy’s complicated Napoleonic inheritance laws. What was left was farmed out to local vignerons and the wares sold to negociants. In 2000, Comte Louis-Michel Liger-Belair took over management of the vineyards and began to grow holdings in Vosne-Romane and Nuit-Saint-Georges again. Comte Liger-Belair now produces the only wine from La Romane, the Grand Cru vineyard on the hill above Romane-Conti. The domaine also holds land in several Vosne-Romane Premier Cru vineyards, including Aux Raignots and Les Chaumes, as well as in the Echezeaux Grand Cru vineyard and in a couple of Premier Crus in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Comte Liger-Belair’s mostly Pinot Noir-based wines are made using biodynamic principles, and vineyards are plowed by horse. Short maceration times are favoured to avoid over-extraction, and the domaine uses mostly new oak. Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair’s elegantly structured wines are highly sought-after, despite the domaine’s youth. The La Romane monopole wine is regularly among the most expensive wines produced in Burgundy.