2005 Domaine Lignier-Michelot Morey St. Denis Vieilles Vignes

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  9/27/2023 - d'Artagnan wrote: 90 Points

  Nez de fruit noir, avec des truffes, on penserait presque à une syrah du Rhône Nord. En bouche c’est droit, ferrugineux, frais et minéral. Une texture dense, une finale précise, de bonne longueur. Un vin équilibré, de facture impeccable. 90 pts

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  7/24/2023 - Tree512 wrote: 89 Points

  Fully mature. Fruit is a little too dark and roasted for me, but nicely savory and a good spine of acid to keep it in balance. Medium body and length.

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  11/16/2020 - Nanda wrote:

  Still brooding and with significant structure. The fruit borders on roasted but stays in check. Still needs another 2-5 years to mellow out and integrate.

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  5/7/2020 - David Meddings Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Notes from memory - drank over 5 days. Clear garnet, some bricking. Black cherry nose that also predominates the palate. This has really come along nicely - long, drawn out final with great vibrancy and balance. Spice inflected cherry profile with fine tannins and medium body.
  
  Looking back on my notes I see this is really just getting going now. I've only 2 left of these but won't touch the next till sometime around 2023. I'm guessing these will see 2025 easily, if not beyond. Very enjoyable and as a "mere" villages wine, a great example of how the winemaker and year often says so much more than anything else as to what one should expect.

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  5/4/2020 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:

  I've been a few years since my last bottle of this MSD and wow, what a difference it's made! Very impressive, very correct. Love the black cherry and nice clean snap of the fruit. Some spicy notes on the finish add a fun flourish. Structure is firm but not hard edged in any way. The nose outperforms the palate, which is totally fine with me. This was an expressive bottle, easy to enjoy with enough real burgundy character and seriousness to raise my eyebrows once or twice. Glad I have a couple more. I think it's in peak drinking window and, though it will certainly stay happy for years to come, there's no point in waiting as t's in a great spot with fruit and structure nicely balanced. For those to whom "mature" equals total absence of primary fruit, then maybe wait. I think that would be a shame. A great effort, and punching above its weight class for sure.

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