2022, Domaine Lignier-Michelot, NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES, 1er Cru, 'Aux Murgers'The 2022 Nuits Saint Georges Aux Murgey 1er Cru, containing 80% whole bunches, has a refined bouquet with raspberry and wild strawberry fruit laced with clove and light tea leaf aromas. The palate is medium bodied with gentle grip. It is quite strict and linear, with fine depth, perhaps requiring a little more complexity on the powdery, curry leaf tinged finish, which does convey elegance and purity. Afford this four or five years in bottle. 90 92

Aged 16-18 months in 40% new French oak

A change in style from past vintages and I like it

35% one year-old barrels and 15% amphora

This has been racked unlike the others

fine opulence of white fruit through the middle

this wine reveals intense aromas of morello cherries

than growing wider with finely mouth-watering

The wonderfully long

Production levels have been slashed in recent vintages with only the best parcels of vines now producing grapes for the Grand Vin

Silky tannins wrap it all together in style

plus hints of menthol

with a powerful core of freshness