94+ Domaine Lignier’s Charmes-Chambertin is a brilliant wine in the making in 2011. The deep and beautiful bouquet is a mix of strawberries, cherries, a touch of beetroot, mustard seed, a great base of soil, woodsmoke...
94+ Domaine Lignier’s Charmes-Chambertin is a brilliant wine in the making in 2011. The deep and beautiful bouquet is a mix of strawberries, cherries, a touch of beetroot, mustard seed, a great base of soil, woodsmoke, cedar and a topnote of rose petals. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very transparent, with a fine core of fruit, superb intensity and focus, fine-grained tannins and a very, very long, elegant and utterly classic finish. The family’s small plot of vines are located in Mazoyères-Chambertin, and I would like to think that the superb quality and refinement of this wine in 2011 is a pretty strong statement that one can produce absolutely brilliant and compellingly suave Charmes from this vineyard as well. A great wine.