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The renewal of domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
The domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, though more than 2 centuries old, has experienced a renewal since it was taken over 15 years ago by Viscount Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, an agricultural engineer and oenologist.
From a lineage of winegrowers, vine cultivation is an integral part of his family traditions: 200 years ago, Louis Liger-Belair, a Napoleonic General, settled at the château de Vosne. He developed his estate, which quickly grew to a considerable size: more than 60 hectares of vines extending predominantly in the Côte de Nuits but also in Beaujolais. The domaine then encompasses many monopoles, jewels of the Burgundy : La Tâche, La Romanée, La Grande Rue. But also a significant portion of Les Brûlées, Les Saint Georges, Les Malconsorts, Les Chaumes, Les Reignots, Les Suchots at Vosne Romanée, of Clos de Vougeot and Les Cras at Vougeot, of Chambolle, Chambertin and Morey Saint Denis… The greater part of the domaine was nevertheless sold a few generations later, following a unfortunate inheritance dispute. Only La Romanée, Les Chaumes, and Les Reignots would remain in the family, with the vineyard work entrusted to sharecroppers and the commercialization to négociants.
It was finally in 2000 that Viscount Louis-Michel Liger-Belair established his domaine. The man, who had always expressed his wish to one day take over the family estate, began by taking over 1.5 hectares (La Colombière, Clos du Château, Vosne-Romanée, and Les Chaumes 1er cru), then two years later by purchasing an additional 1.6 hectares of vines (La Romanée and Vosne Romanée 1er cru Aux Reignots). Finally, in 2006, he completed the estate by leasing an additional 5.5 hectares, including among others a significant parcel ofEchezeaux. In total, domaine du Comte Liger-Belair now represents just over 8 hectares of Pinot Noir planted on clay-limestone soil. The vines, with an average age of 50 years, are harvested by hand, and the aging of 13 to 17 months takes place primarily in new oak barrels, offering the wine an exemplary longevity.
Today, the finesse, breadth, and superb longevity of the wines of Comte Liger-Belair are definitively establishing themselves as very close to those of the mythical and very rare estates of Burgundy, such as Domaine Leroy or the Domaine de la Romanée Conti.
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