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The revival of Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
The Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair, although over 2 centuries old, has experienced a revival since it was taken over 15 years ago by Vicomte Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, an agricultural engineer and oenologist.
Coming from a line of winemakers, viticulture 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 operation, which quickly took on considerable scope: over 60 hectares of vines extending mainly in Côte de Nuits but also in Beaujolais. The estate then includes numerous monopoles, jewels of Burgundy : La Tâche, La Romanée, La Grande Rue. But also a significant part of Brûlées, Saint Georges, Malconsorts, Chaumes, Reignots, Suchots in Vosne Romanée, from Clos de Vougeot and Cras in Vougeot, the Chambolle, Chambertin and Morey Saint Denis... However, most of the estate was sold a few generations later, following an unfortunate inheritance dispute. Only La Romanée, Chaumes, and Reignots remained in the family, with vineyard work entrusted to sharecroppers and sales to merchants.
It was finally in 2000 that Vicomte Louis-Michel Liger-Belair created his estate. The man, who had always expressed his wish to one day take over the family operation, 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 operation by leasing an additional 5.5 hectares including, among others, a significant parcel ofEchezeaux. In total, the 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 hand-harvested, and aging of 13 to 17 months is done primarily in new barrels, giving the wine exemplary longevity.
Today, the finesse, breadth, and superb longevity of Comte Liger-Belair's wines 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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