2017 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Chaumes

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  5/20/2023 - oxwombat Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Opened at Caprice for the Four Hands Dinner. This was extremely generously shared blind by a benefactor choosing to remain anonymous - thank you!
  
  All of us at the table had a sniff of this - I was initially way off, for some reason detecting barnyard notes. But my first sip on the palate told me that my nose was playing up, as this was exquisite pinot. However, my friends knew instantly that this was excellent stuff, and the floral emphasis pointed us in the direction of Louis Michel. It also had a lot of structure and was quite dark - could it be La Colombiere?
  
  Turns out it was Chaumes. What a treat! Drinking beautifully as long as you give this a bit of air - good to let it evolve in the glass with patience to capture the full beauty of the nose. Will probably improve with a few years of cellaring but already very approachable now. Wonderful stuff.

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  11/8/2021 - clayfu wrote:

  best bottle I've had of this yet, really generous red fruit after a few hours. The Chaumes tends to be the most reserved wine out of the lineup but it captures the intricacies of vosne spice really well. Great spot.

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  8/16/2021 - mye wrote:

  Open and approachable after a 2.5 hour decant. Layers of red berries and dark cherries. Intense sous bois, and spices. What a beautiful bottle.

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  8/15/2021 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Big Burg Energy: Decanted and slow oxed for 2.5 hours. Was not showing anything on PnP, but come dinner time, what a beast. Full of gobsmacking black and red fruit with intense florals and spices. Blew me away. Imagine this in 20 years. A destroyer.

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  4/21/2019 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  2018 Visit to Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair with Louis-Michel (Vosne-Romanée): The site at the bottom of the slope, vines 75 years old. A richer, fuller nose, but still dominated by black fruit and violets and other dark florals. Still, on palate, very fine, clean and pure, but fuller and rounder. Fleshier. Packed with even more dark berry and cherry fruit and some black plums. Large scaled but seamless. Unsurprisingly, showing even more than the Villages wines.

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