2011 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits St Georges Aux Cras Burgundy - 750ml

2011 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits St Georges Aux Cras Burgundy - 750ml

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2011 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits St Georges Aux Cras Burgundy
Louis-Michel Liger-Belair founded this Domaine in 2000, but the Liger-Belair family has been making fine wines in Vosne-Romanée for almost 200 years. Louis Liger-Belair, a general for Napoleon, acquired the Château de Vosne and an impressive number of prime parcels in 1815. As is the case with the history of many Burgundian Domaines, however, inheritance laws caused the family holdings to fracture, and by the mid-20th century, the Liger-Belair family had returned to the military profession, with Count Henry, Louis-Michel’s father, attaining the rank of general just like their ancestor Louis. A young Louis-Michel, however, declared his intentions to eventually take over the remaining family holdings and he did just that in 2000 after finishing his studies in agricultural engineering and oenology.

Today, the glory of the Liger-Belair name lives on in this small-production but prestigious Domaine that counts among its holdings the smallest grand cru in Burgundy and the smallest AOC in France, La Romanée, of which it is the sole owner. Louis-Michel believes that the quality of the wines he produces lies in the vineyard; he maintains that the vine is a living entity and it should not be subjected to anything that we ourselves could not tolerate. The Domaine abides by the belief that the less one does in the winery and in the cellar, the better the wines turn out.

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 Romanée monopole wine is regularly among the most expensive wines produced in Burgundy.


Product Details

Varietal Pinot Noir
Vintage 2011
Rating 93 BH
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country France
Region Burgundy
Location Cote de Nuits
Producer Comte du Liger-Belair
Color Red
Wine Type Table

Winery Details

Varietal Pinot Noir
Vintage 2011
Rating 93 BH 
Barrels
Mostly new French Oak 
Style
Burgundian
Owners
Liger-Belair Family
Region Burgundy
Location Cote de Nuits
Producer Liger-Belair Family
Winemaker
Louis-Michel Liger-Belair
Production
100 cases (approx)

Robert Parker

Robert Parker 2011 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Nuits St Georges Aux Cras Burgundy - Twelve months since our last acquaintance, the 2011 Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Les Cras has an open and generous balsamic-tinged bouquet with subtle tertiary aromas the kind of nose you want to give a gentle kick up the asse. The palate is medium-bodied with firm dry tannins, just a touch of herbaceousness that segues into a dry, earthy finish. It feels a little coarse at the moment and it deserves a couple more years in bottle. RP

Wine Spectator

Wine Spectator

Burghound

Burghound 93 BH - Relatively strong reduction renders the nose impossible to evaluate. There is exceptionally good verve and detail to the overtly mineral-driven medium-bodied flavors that possess an abundance of mouth coating dry extract while concluding in a gorgeously lengthy finish. Excellent.

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