Tasting Notes:

Light body but powerful Pinot Noir ripe fruit aromas complimenting the cherry, red currant and herbaceous savouriness.

A cult Burgundy that is strictly under allocation due to the demand and small quantities produced.

About the Lignier Family:

The Lignier family have deep roots in the village of Morey Saint Denis and own some of the very best vineyard sites in this village, and also in the 2 neighbouring villages 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 1990's 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 few vintages Virgile has modified his winemaking 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 for maturation with most wines seeing around 30% making its effect seamless in the final wines.

He has also just completed a new winery 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 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 a mong the very best in the Cotes de Nuits.