2022 Domaine Hubert Lignier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes [V94-96][D95][BH91-94]

Producer: Domaine Hubert Lignier  
Region: Gevrey-Chambertin, Cote de Nuits, Burgundy, France  
Varietal: Pinot Noir  
Year: 2022    

Vinous, 94-96 Points

"The 2022 Gevrey-Chamberin Aux Combottes 1er Cru has a beautiful bouquet (as usual) with pure red cherries, wild strawberries, pencil box, and light loamy scents in the background.  The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannins.  There’s impressive depth, fleshier than the La Petite Chapelle, with a caressing, persistent finish.  Very seductive.  Very delicious." 

Decanter, 95 Points 

"Laurent Lignier's 2022 Gevrey Combottes is a resounding success, with its expressive black and red fruit aromas and abundant earthy complexity and depth. The texture is broad and dense, and the structure carries the wine to an impressively lingering finish. The wine is produced from Lignier's tiny 0.15-hectare plot at the foot of Mont Luisant, surrounded on three sides by grand crus. The grapes are from vines originally planted in 1957; they are partially destemmed before gentle fermentation on native yeasts and ageing in cask."  

Burghound, 91-94 Points 

"More discreet wood influence more easily allows the elegant, and more floral, aromas of mostly dark pinot fruit to be enjoyed. The caressing but punchy medium weight flavors possess good mid-palate richness before terminating in a dusty, youthfully austere and well-balanced finale. This is lovely and very Combottes in character, which is to say refined but with focused power." 

Alcohol: 13% 

Organically farmed. 

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