THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR - Richebourg Grand cru  - 2016

THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR

Richebourg Grand cru 2016

(from a .55 ha parcel; 30% whole cluster). A strikingly floral-suffused nose offers up a mix of violet,lavender and rose petal that adds elegance to the panoply of spicy dark fruit aromas. There is an almost painful intensity to the beautifully well-detailed big-bodied and superbly mineral-driven flavors that possess a gorgeous mouthfeel, indeed the mid-palate is almost lacy, that gives way to a wall of tannin on the serious, powerful and breathtakingly long finish. This stunner of a Richebourg is also going to require extended keeping as it’s very, very tightly wound today


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