2007 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | La Romanee Online

2007 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | La Romanee

Red Wine: 2007 | Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair | La Romanee

Reticent aromas of red berries and minerals, with an overlay of spicy oak. Large-scaled, creamy-sweet and rich; a real essence of pinot noir. Wonderfully suave and spherical wine with intriguing minerality and lovely length.

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Producer: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair

Vintage: 2007

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Cote de Nuits

Detailed Description

Reticent aromas of red berries and minerals, with an overlay of spicy oak. Large-scaled, creamy-sweet and rich; a real essence of pinot noir. Wonderfully suave and spherical wine with intriguing minerality and lovely length.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2007 La Romanée Grand Cru is in keeping with the vintage, very open for business with plush strawberries, red cherries and rose petals. It is not the most complex aromatics that Louis-Michel has overseen but it is utterly charming. The palate is beautifully balanced with fine tannin, very pure red cherry and cranberry fruit, a dash of orange sorbet and plenty of mineral notes on the tensile finish. I would actually broach this now to revel in its youth and joie-de-vivre but it clearly has the substance to last two decades. I’ll leave it to you.

• John Gilman: The 2007 La Romanée from Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair is starting to really drink beautifully at age twelve, wafting from the glass in a glorious aromatic blend of raspberries, beetroot, blood orange, exotic spice tones, kaleidoscopic minerality, fresh nutmeg, roses, a touch of lavender and spicy new oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, tangy and nicely sappy at the core, with great focus and grip, lovely acids and a very, very long, complex and meltingly tannic finish. This is one vintage of La Romanée that it is emphatically not a crime to be drinking in its relative youth!

Producer Information

Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, founded in 2000, is a relatively new wine producer in Burgundy, although the Liger-Belair family have owned vineyards in Vosne-Romanée since 1815. The domaine makes a range of grand and premier cru wines from vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanée, with the tiny monopole of La Romanée providing Comte Liger-Belair’s flagship wine. Louis Liger-Belair, a former general in Napoleon’s army, acquired a vineyard holdings during the state sell-off of estates confiscated under the French Revolution – including the impressive Château de Vosne-Romanée. The Liger-Belairs held a good portion of land in the southern Côte de Nuits in the 19th Century, owning La Romanée and La Tâche as well as large portions of Clos de Vougeot and Chambertin, and a handful of premier cru vineyards. Much of the land was sold off in 1933 under Burgundy’s complicated Napoleonic inheritance laws. What was left was farmed out to local vignerons and the wares sold to negociants. In 2000, Comte Louis-Michel Liger-Belair took over management of the vineyards and began to grow holdings in Vosne-Romanée and Nuit-Saint-Georges again. Comte Liger-Belair now produces the only wine from La Romanée, the Grand Cru vineyard on the hill above Romanée-Conti. The domaine also holds land in several Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru vineyards, including Aux Raignots and Les Chaumes, as well as in the Echezeaux Grand Cru vineyard and in a couple of Premier Crus in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Comte Liger-Belair’s mostly Pinot Noir-based wines are made using biodynamic principles, and vineyards are plowed by horse. Short maceration times are favoured to avoid over-extraction, and the domaine uses mostly new oak. Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair’s elegantly structured wines are highly sought-after, despite the domaine’s youth. The La Romanée monopole wine is regularly among the most expensive wines produced in Burgundy.