Domaine Lignier-Michelot, Morey-Saint-Denis En La Rue De Vergy Rouge, 2021 champagne cracks and blackberry layered over cocoa

and blackberry layered over cocoa

Fifteen to eighteen months aging with very little new oak preserves the vine age's contribution to complexity and structure

crystal-clear frame

Firm body with chalky structure

From 20+ year-old Chardonnay vines in Les Préaux's eastern-facing slopes

Domaine Lignier-Michelot, Morey-Saint-Denis En La Rue De Vergy Rouge, 2021 champagne cracks and blackberry layered over cocoaDomaine Lignier Michelot's home appellation, and arguably the climat that punches hardest above its village level pay grade. En la Rue de Vergy sits high on the Morey slope just above Clos de Tart, where the topsoil thins to nothing and the limestone bedrock pushes up to the surface closer in character to the highest Chambolle parcels than to most village Morey. Virgile Lignier farms his two hectares (planted in 1974) organically and treats the wine