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Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair

2006 Domaine du Comte Liger Belair, Echezeaux Grand Cru

France Pinot Noir Burgundy Echezeaux Grand Cru 750ML

Wine Advocate

93

Vinous

93
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2006 Domaine du Comte Liger Belair, Echezeaux Grand Cru
Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair

2006 Domaine du Comte Liger Belair, Echezeaux Grand Cru

France Pinot Noir Burgundy Echezeaux Grand Cru 750ML

Wine Advocate

93

Vinous

93
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The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

93

Liger-Belair's 2006 Echezeaux – from newly acquired acreage – strikes me as in some ways the wine that the Reignots is trying to – and hopefully could – become. Pungent wood smoke, game, black tea, distilled red fruits, and high-toned citrus oil fill the nose. On the palate, this boasts cut and brightness of sappy fresh strawberry and raspberry concentration, pungently tinged with white pepper, ginger, and bittersweet candied. An energetic, invigorating and penetrating finish barely gives you a chance to notice the abundance of fine-grained tannin or the presence of new wood as a discrete flavor element. I would plan on this being worth following for at least 10-12 years. Louis-Michel Liger-Belair reported higher potential alcohol levels this year than in 2005, but also maintains that the nature of the ambient yeasts in 2006 accounted for a thankfully inefficient conversion, so that finished alcohols were not noticeably higher. Triage in his cellars, he maintains, was and will in future vintages remain "two to three percent," thanks to restriction of yields and meticulous vine management. Liger-Belair remains a proponent of gentle extraction but high levels of new wood. What I misleadingly announced in issue 170 as "a new negociant side of the business" is in fact an arrangement whereby Liger-Belair himself farms around 15 acres that had previously been tended by a grower who once enjoyed a share-cropping arrangement with Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair (during the long period when their wines were pledged to Bouchard). Half of the acreage in question yields Bourgogne and is genuinely sold as a negociant project, but the rest will be treated to the domaine's vine-papering, biodynamic regimen, including the horse plowing of whose revival they were among the earliest and most conspicuous proponents. Liger-Belair reminds me, however, that it will take time for the effect of this attention to be felt. Beginning with this vintage also, all of the Liger-Belair monopole La Romanee and all of their Vosne Reignots are estate-bottled, none being sold any longer to Bouchard. A Becky Wasserman Selection (various importers), Le Serbet; fax 011-333-80-24-29-70

Vinous

Vinous

93

Good deep, dark red. Sexy aromas of musky red raspberry, smoke, minerals and earth; cooler than the 2007. Suave on entry, then quite tight in the middle, with a fine grain to the brisk red fruit flavors. Very bright, perfumed wine with the energy of the vintage's best examples. Finishes with terrific lift. At once thoroughly ripe and aristocratically cool and laid-back. Two-thirds of these vines are planted on pale, calcaire-rich soil.

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The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

93

Liger-Belair's 2006 Echezeaux – from newly acquired acreage – strikes me as in some ways the wine that the Reignots is trying to – and hopefully could – become. Pungent wood smoke, game, black tea, distilled red fruits, and high-toned citrus oil fill the nose. On the palate, this boasts cut and brightness of sappy fresh strawberry and raspberry concentration, pungently tinged with white pepper, ginger, and bittersweet candied. An energetic, invigorating and penetrating finish barely gives you a chance to notice the abundance of fine-grained tannin or the presence of new wood as a discrete flavor element. I would plan on this being worth following for at least 10-12 years. Louis-Michel Liger-Belair reported higher potential alcohol levels this year than in 2005, but also maintains that the nature of the ambient yeasts in 2006 accounted for a thankfully inefficient conversion, so that finished alcohols were not noticeably higher. Triage in his cellars, he maintains, was and will in future vintages remain "two to three percent," thanks to restriction of yields and meticulous vine management. Liger-Belair remains a proponent of gentle extraction but high levels of new wood. What I misleadingly announced in issue 170 as "a new negociant side of the business" is in fact an arrangement whereby Liger-Belair himself farms around 15 acres that had previously been tended by a grower who once enjoyed a share-cropping arrangement with Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair (during the long period when their wines were pledged to Bouchard). Half of the acreage in question yields Bourgogne and is genuinely sold as a negociant project, but the rest will be treated to the domaine's vine-papering, biodynamic regimen, including the horse plowing of whose revival they were among the earliest and most conspicuous proponents. Liger-Belair reminds me, however, that it will take time for the effect of this attention to be felt. Beginning with this vintage also, all of the Liger-Belair monopole La Romanee and all of their Vosne Reignots are estate-bottled, none being sold any longer to Bouchard. A Becky Wasserman Selection (various importers), Le Serbet; fax 011-333-80-24-29-70

Vinous

Vinous

93

Good deep, dark red. Sexy aromas of musky red raspberry, smoke, minerals and earth; cooler than the 2007. Suave on entry, then quite tight in the middle, with a fine grain to the brisk red fruit flavors. Very bright, perfumed wine with the energy of the vintage's best examples. Finishes with terrific lift. At once thoroughly ripe and aristocratically cool and laid-back. Two-thirds of these vines are planted on pale, calcaire-rich soil.