Drank with 07 and 09 this was the “weak” link tonight but on a crazy high level. More brooding than other bottles I had but still consistent just lacking as the 07 and 09 were very accessible. But 08 got better with air and it’s sweet sour interplay is magical when I showed. I would actually tuck those away now for 5-10 years plus as it feels they have been shutting down a touch. And drink 07 now if you must. Sensational potential.
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A consistently great wine is La Romanee 08. It’s visually quite pale in fact, but let that not mislead you for it failing to pack a punch. Screaming nose of umami, sweet sour roast pork. It’s crystalline and meaty/savoury at the same time. The sour cherry fruit is sappy, carries long. It’s hauntingly salty on the tounge. What an amazing wine (again) but interestingly it feels bested by the 06 Romanee opened a day prior. However, some decant cranks it up to 11, they are in fact fairly similar then (06 and 08) but today somewhat surprisingly the 06 prevails and of course it may just be that bottle.
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Comte Liger Belair Romanee 08 is a near perfect wine even already today as simple as that. My second time with this wine and it has this extra gear - layers of umami, truffle - in addition to the silky fine regal fruit. Coming after a strong set of various Richebourg wines (including DRC 14) it was immediately apparent that the game with upped yet again by our generous host Karl with this amazing blind "bonus" bottle. So good today one can only try and imagine what it will be in another decade. Glorious stuff.
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Fairly pale in colour, transculent really. Earth, mushroom, wild strawberry, umami (!!!) galore which for me seems to be the single clue of this sacred terroir?! Like ultra Thick sesame oil, but then it’s a firecracker and a dancer. The real deal and while 09 and 12 are more substantial this is a great wine to drink today and for the next decade. Truly special. Bottle 2044/3058. Over time it just goes better even in the decanter. Close your eyes it is sweet sour poised dynamite on the nose and umami laden sour and sweet intertwined plum. It toys with you and it just escalates. Let yourself be toyed with. You cannot even get near the glass to not be immersed in this magic dust, there is a c 5 inch radius around the glass after half an hour of air that simply swallows you whole. No(t many wine) other wines can do this.
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Mediocre wine that’s stylistically more Bouchard than LMLB. Heavy, ripe, extracted. Finishes touch sour, what a disappointment. According to LMLB, domaine shifted to biodynamic in 2008. Also began using more precise, smaller press in 2009. (126/3058)
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There’s a hint of forest floor development sneaking in. It has plenty of berry, cherry and earth. The palate is super spicy, with a cool mineral centre. Fruits are deliciously crunchy and the finish is stony and long.
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An exceptional performance for the vintage. Layers of dark fruit that are both precise and deep. A distinct set of mineral and rocky notes underneath on the palate. Wonderful energy and silky acids beginning to end.
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Winos' excellent adventure in France; 6/22/2017-6/27/2017 (All over France): A big scale nose displaying intense bright red fruits, raspberry, Chambord, crushed blackberry, sap, delicate caramel, grilled cep, black truffle, a hint of sous bois and a hint of oak/sesame. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of intense ripe yet bright red fruits, quite oily yet very precise and weightless, perfect amount of acidity and strong mineral presence. The finish is incredibly long. This is a very intense energetic wine. It is already drinking beautifully but will last easily for a few more decades. There is only a hint of sous bois.
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Tasted double blinded in Liger Belair and Bouchard dinner.
Medium ruby color. On nose, still a bit tight, with floral, wet forest and sweet ripe red fruits. Hints of tertiary as well. On Palate, loads of ripe red fruits together with brunches, tea and hints of smokiness. Good finish. Not sure if the condition of this bottle is good enough.
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2008 La Romanee, very bright ruby color, the nose is only 60% open but perfect in the mouth and aftertaste. The one and the only wine from tonight that brings tear covered my eyes on its finish. 98/100 The Real Promising !!
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Expensive Winos for dinner (Frederiksberg): I actually guessed this one, as it reminded me somewhat of the 2009, tasted last years; it is extraordinary, tight, vibrant, loads of minerals to go with concentrated fruit. Painfully young, of course, but enjoyable nevertheless. Thanks to Jan for bringing this.
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Wow! An exceptional wine indeed. A great Grand Cru, and yet again provenance of just how fine the 2008 Bourgogne wines are becoming. This is still very young and primary, but lovely already. Beautiful perfumed nose, with such a depth and complexity. Great smoked minerals, fine wood, excellent clean notes of ripe and fine Pinot fruit and lovely perfumed and airy flowers. Layers and layers of fragrances are rising from the glass as it opens up more and more with air. This is a wine you could just smell forever, and it’s so intensely clean and complex. On the palate is shows clean and tart berries, lingon berries, cranberries, red currants, with a deeper layered core of red cherries, sweeter and riper wild strawberries, raspberries and some darker fruit underneath. The structure is worldclass, and the great minerallity and acidity weaves everything together into perfection. Touch of green herbs and grass together with spicy wood ads to the lovely complex spiciness. Finesse and airy purity with a great & deep structured core and a super long finish goes on forever. Grand Cru in it’s true meaning and form. Young, but what a wine! I can only imagine where this will end up when everything fans out and open up in the future. Clearly among the finest wines I have had this year. (97 – 100)
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Holy mother of god! What wine can hold it's own after the 2010 La Tache? Well, this wine certainly can! Almost same level of intensity but perhaps even more precise, feminine and delicate and better integration of the new oak. I cannot believe the generosity of our host as this wine is revealed. You almost get the sense, that the terroir is greater here than in La Tache. However, my emotional reaction to the La tache was a bit greater, but that should not detract from the perfection of this wine!
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Showing a streak of minerally acidity that comes with the vintage. It smelt of camphor and sandalwood and had some subtle red and black fruits and a touch of peel. It had delicious fruit flavours and was bright and zippy.
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Light ruby red. White flowers, some cut grass, cranberry, white currant and nutmeg. Extremely elegant in the mouth, light bodied. Huge acidity and sous bois. Steely, painfully young but the greatness is there. Drink from 2025... interesting to compare this to my TN for the 2007. Clearly the same style, but this one is much more for the long haul.
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12/10/2022 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 97 Points
Drank with 07 and 09 this was the “weak” link tonight but on a crazy high level. More brooding than other bottles I had but still consistent just lacking as the 07 and 09 were very accessible. But 08 got better with air and it’s sweet sour interplay is magical when I showed. I would actually tuck those away now for 5-10 years plus as it feels they have been shutting down a touch. And drink 07 now if you must. Sensational potential.
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7/23/2022 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 99 Points
A consistently great wine is La Romanee 08. It’s visually quite pale in fact, but let that not mislead you for it failing to pack a punch. Screaming nose of umami, sweet sour roast pork. It’s crystalline and meaty/savoury at the same time. The sour cherry fruit is sappy, carries long. It’s hauntingly salty on the tounge. What an amazing wine (again) but interestingly it feels bested by the 06 Romanee opened a day prior. However, some decant cranks it up to 11, they are in fact fairly similar then (06 and 08) but today somewhat surprisingly the 06 prevails and of course it may just be that bottle.
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6/13/2022 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 99 Points
Comte Liger Belair Romanee 08 is a near perfect wine even already today as simple as that. My second time with this wine and it has this extra gear - layers of umami, truffle - in addition to the silky fine regal fruit. Coming after a strong set of various Richebourg wines (including DRC 14) it was immediately apparent that the game with upped yet again by our generous host Karl with this amazing blind "bonus" bottle. So good today one can only try and imagine what it will be in another decade. Glorious stuff.
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6/2/2022 - Burgnick wrote: 88 Points
Disappointing. It does not hold up in the glass. Lacks the purity and intensity of a La Romanee. Not an issue of provenance.
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9/1/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 99 Points
Fairly pale in colour, transculent really. Earth, mushroom, wild strawberry, umami (!!!) galore which for me seems to be the single clue of this sacred terroir?! Like ultra Thick sesame oil, but then it’s a firecracker and a dancer. The real deal and while 09 and 12 are more substantial this is a great wine to drink today and for the next decade. Truly special. Bottle 2044/3058. Over time it just goes better even in the decanter. Close your eyes it is sweet sour poised dynamite on the nose and umami laden sour and sweet intertwined plum. It toys with you and it just escalates. Let yourself be toyed with. You cannot even get near the glass to not be immersed in this magic dust, there is a c 5 inch radius around the glass after half an hour of air that simply swallows you whole. No(t many wine) other wines can do this.
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6/30/2021 - fcxj wrote: 86 Points
Mediocre wine that’s stylistically more Bouchard than LMLB. Heavy, ripe, extracted. Finishes touch sour, what a disappointment. According to LMLB, domaine shifted to biodynamic in 2008. Also began using more precise, smaller press in 2009. (126/3058)
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10/16/2018 - beatles wrote: flawed
The great outing (Aalborg, Denmark): Ox.
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5/4/2018 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
There’s a hint of forest floor development sneaking in. It has plenty of berry, cherry and earth. The palate is super spicy, with a cool mineral centre. Fruits are deliciously crunchy and the finish is stony and long.
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12/7/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 97 Points
An exceptional performance for the vintage. Layers of dark fruit that are both precise and deep. A distinct set of mineral and rocky notes underneath on the palate. Wonderful energy and silky acids beginning to end.
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12/1/2017 - noppakit s. wrote: 94 Points
To drink this wine after Jacky Truchot is absolutely wrong !!!
Today my beloved La Romanee is too light too elegant, almost no sign of any smell, light body and so so aftertaste.
It's very very different from the bottle drinking last year.
You failed me.
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6/26/2017 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points
Winos' excellent adventure in France; 6/22/2017-6/27/2017 (All over France): A big scale nose displaying intense bright red fruits, raspberry, Chambord, crushed blackberry, sap, delicate caramel, grilled cep, black truffle, a hint of sous bois and a hint of oak/sesame. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of intense ripe yet bright red fruits, quite oily yet very precise and weightless, perfect amount of acidity and strong mineral presence. The finish is incredibly long. This is a very intense energetic wine. It is already drinking beautifully but will last easily for a few more decades. There is only a hint of sous bois.
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10/19/2016 - Ivan Ma wrote: 93 Points
Tasted double blinded in Liger Belair and Bouchard dinner.
Medium ruby color. On nose, still a bit tight, with floral, wet forest and sweet ripe red fruits. Hints of tertiary as well. On Palate, loads of ripe red fruits together with brunches, tea and hints of smokiness. Good finish.
Not sure if the condition of this bottle is good enough.
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5/16/2016 - noppakit s. wrote: 98 Points
2008 La Romanee, very bright ruby color, the nose is only 60% open but perfect in the mouth and aftertaste. The one and the only wine from tonight that brings tear covered my eyes on its finish.
98/100
The Real Promising !!
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10/27/2014 - beatles wrote: 97 Points
Expensive Winos for dinner (Frederiksberg): I actually guessed this one, as it reminded me somewhat of the 2009, tasted last years; it is extraordinary, tight, vibrant, loads of minerals to go with concentrated fruit. Painfully young, of course, but enjoyable nevertheless. Thanks to Jan for bringing this.
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10/25/2014 - Ramberg wrote: 98 Points
Wow!
An exceptional wine indeed.
A great Grand Cru, and yet again provenance of just how fine the 2008 Bourgogne wines are becoming.
This is still very young and primary, but lovely already.
Beautiful perfumed nose, with such a depth and complexity.
Great smoked minerals, fine wood, excellent clean notes of ripe and fine Pinot fruit and lovely perfumed and airy flowers.
Layers and layers of fragrances are rising from the glass as it opens up more and more with air.
This is a wine you could just smell forever, and it’s so intensely clean and complex.
On the palate is shows clean and tart berries, lingon berries, cranberries, red currants, with a deeper layered core of red cherries, sweeter and riper wild strawberries, raspberries and some darker fruit underneath.
The structure is worldclass, and the great minerallity and acidity weaves everything together into perfection.
Touch of green herbs and grass together with spicy wood ads to the lovely complex spiciness.
Finesse and airy purity with a great & deep structured core and a super long finish goes on forever.
Grand Cru in it’s true meaning and form.
Young, but what a wine!
I can only imagine where this will end up when everything fans out and open up in the future.
Clearly among the finest wines I have had this year.
(97 – 100)
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3/14/2014 - SineQuaNon Likes this wine: 99 Points
Holy mother of god! What wine can hold it's own after the 2010 La Tache? Well, this wine certainly can! Almost same level of intensity but perhaps even more precise, feminine and delicate and better integration of the new oak. I cannot believe the generosity of our host as this wine is revealed. You almost get the sense, that the terroir is greater here than in La Tache. However, my emotional reaction to the La tache was a bit greater, but that should not detract from the perfection of this wine!
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2/11/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Showing a streak of minerally acidity that comes with the vintage. It smelt of camphor and sandalwood and had some subtle red and black fruits and a touch of peel. It had delicious fruit flavours and was bright and zippy.
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9/26/2011 - Rani wrote: 97 Points
Light ruby red. White flowers, some cut grass, cranberry, white currant and nutmeg. Extremely elegant in the mouth, light bodied. Huge acidity and sous bois. Steely, painfully young but the greatness is there. Drink from 2025... interesting to compare this to my TN for the 2007. Clearly the same style, but this one is much more for the long haul.
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2/5/2011 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 95 Points
Domaine du Comte Liger Belair 2008 tasting (Prince Wine Store - Bank Street): There is a spicy darkness with plums and some integrated florals with a massively dense and seductive palette and a persistent finish.
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11/10/2010 - lepetitchateau wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful breed to this with lots of rich fruit, sophistication. The acidity is big and will require extra age. The finish is really long and rich.
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