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Hubert Lignier, Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2013
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good full red. Explosive aromas of strawberry, raspberry, minerals, brown spices, flinty minerality, espresso and wild herbs. Supple and sweet but very firm and backward, hinting at strong soil-driven salinity and roasted herbs. Complex, rich and intense but powerful tannins are keeping the wine's fruit under wraps today. Finishes salty, chewy, dry and long, with substantial buffered tannins to support a long life in bottle.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(one-third new oak; 20% vendange entier): Good dark red. Deep, musky aromas of raspberry, espresso and smoky minerality. Sweet, pliant purple fruit flavors offer considerable early appeal. It's hard to imagine that this wine won't shut down in the bottle, but today it comes across as a very silky and tender style of Clos de la Roche for the Ligniers. Substantial but fine-grained tannins arrive late, allowing the fruit to blossom on the back end. In a very supple style but balanced to age. The crop level here was about 33 hectoliters per hectare, according to Laurent Lignier.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2013 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru, which is raised in one-third new oak and includes 20% stems, has a slightly sultry nose at first and demands encouragement, reluctantly revealing scents of blackberry, briary and granite. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and very well-judged acidity. This feels much more composed on the palate than on the nose at the moment, but there is wonderful length and the new oak is seamlessly integrated. Not quite up there with the ethereal 2012, but still this represents a worthy follow-up.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good full red. Explosive aromas of strawberry, raspberry, minerals, brown spices, flinty minerality, espresso and wild herbs. Supple and sweet but very firm and backward, hinting at strong soil-driven salinity and roasted herbs. Complex, rich and intense but powerful tannins are keeping the wine's fruit under wraps today. Finishes salty, chewy, dry and long, with substantial buffered tannins to support a long life in bottle.
About the Producer
For vinifications and ageing, our methods are little interventionist.The fruit’s quality is essential to craft 24 great wines. We make fresh, fine and elegant wines which are also full bodied with a long lasting and mouth-watering finish. Each of our terroirs (Clos de la Roche, Morey, Gevrey-Chambertin, …) expresses itself through our wines. Our ageing in barrels (20 to 30% new oak) is rather long (20 or 22 months), on lees and without racking after malolactic fermentation. The wines are bottled using gravity, without fining in order to keep the wine’s freshness and its ageing potential.
