THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR - Clos de Vougeot Grand cru  - 2015

THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR

Clos de Vougeot Grand cru 2015

(from a .72 ha parcel on the Vosne side in the middle against the southern wall). Yet again reduction and wood overshadow the underlying fruit. This is even more  concentrated and muscular with outstanding size, weight and punch to the big-bodied flavors that are shaped by an exceptionally firm tannic spine that makes it unequivocally certain that, unlike the Les St. Georges, this absolutely must be cellared for at least 10 to 12 years first and I wouldn’t be surprised if it required fully 20 years before it reached its complete apogee.

January 2019


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