Lignier-Michelot Gevrey-Chambertin Cuvee Bertin 2014
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Variety: Pinot Noir
Country Region: France, Burgundy, Cote-de-Nuits
Appellation: Gevrey Chambertin
Comes mostly from a 0.53 ha parcel of old vines planted in 1969 in Les Seuvrees which borders on to Grand cru Charmes Chambertin close to the Morey St Denis border.
'(from Les Seuvrées and Les Murots; 40% whole cluster). This is at once prettier and more expressive with its notes of red currant, plum, earth, sauvage and humus nuances. I very much like the sense of energy and detail to the delicious middle weight flavors that exhibits good balance and length on the ever-so-mildly austere finish. 2021+.' (88-91) points, Burghound, January 2016.
'I really like the style of the 2014s as they’re dense enough to be serious and age-worthy yet not particularly austere or backward and thus should also please those who like their burgs on the younger side.' Burghound, January 2016.
'The Lignier-Michelot range attains the heights that Morey-Saint-Denis can achieve courtesy of their Premier Crus and obligatory Clos Saint-Denis and Clos de la Roche cuvées.' Neal Martin, Vinous, January 2019.
The Lignier family have deep roots in the village of Morey Saint Denis and own 10.5 hectares of some of the very best vineyard sites in this village, and also in the two neighbouring villages of Chambolle Musigny and Gevrey Chambertin. Virgile's father and grand-father had always produced wine and sold it to negotiants until Virgile started working with his father in the early 1990s and he decided to sell the wines himself. Now with almost 20 vintages of experience Virgile has moved the domaine to fully organic viticulture and is producing what many believe to be the best wines of this prestigious village.
In the last 10 years Virgile has modified his wine-making using whole-bunch vinification ranging from 30-100% depending on the vintage and the vineyard and he has also reduced the percentage of new oak (mostly Seguin-Moreau and Francois freres) for maturation with most wines seeing around 30% making its effect seamless in the final wines. He also completed a new winery in time for the 2013 vintage that now enables him to work with temperature control and to gain a very gentle extraction of tannins for all his wines. This results in wines showing great precision and energy with remarkable perfume and also beautiful fine tannins and very silky structure. They are wines which are often very seductive at a young age which also clearly have the potential for ageing superbly. This very young domaine is now regarded among the very best in the Cotes de Nuits.