Comte Liger Belair, Nuits Saint Georges Lavieres

Comte Liger Belair, Nuits Saint Georges Lavieres(this wine is only sold in the UK). Here there is no reductive funk as the agreeably fresh nose offers up ripe notes of earthy and spicy purple fruit. There is both fine punch and volume to the utterly delicious and lightly mineral inflected flavors that display traces of warmth and rusticity on the otherwise solidly persistent and complex finish. In 2016 this was more Vosne in style but in 2015 its clearly a Nuits villages but one with a certain

bottled under Stelvin

from the Coteaux du Languedoc

silky tannins add to the wine's considerable raciness

500 cases imported

(planted in 1985)

pure and delicate but also powerful and concentrated

in the Luján de Cuyo department of Mendoza plus grapes from La Consulta in the Uco Valley

It boasts a really lovely bouquet considering the vintage

Few have done more to promote Chilean wine than him

peppery aromas accenting espresso

blood orange and roasted sandalwood notes

This offers good power for the vintage and will benefit from 5 to 7 years of cellar time