Lignier Michelot Morey St. Denis Aux Chezeaux 1er Cru 2014 (750ML)

90-93 BH / 91 WA / 89-92 VM

Note: 90% whole cluster

Tasting note: A discreet application of wood sets off the ripe, fresh and layered combination of plum, violet, spice and soft game-inflected aromas. There is good volume and intensity to the attractively muscular and stony medium-bodied flavors that display strikingly good depth on the impressively long, clean and dry-in-the-best sense finish. Lovely and this too should be approachable young. --Allen Meadows, Burghound

Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, the 2014 Morey St Denis Aux Chezeaux 1er Cru comes across as rather stemmy on the nose, the whole bunches not quite as well integrated as others at first but assimilating with aeration. The palate is more cohesive with fine tannin, lovely pure red fruit and a gentle but insistent finish that is a joy. Like Domaine Lignier-Michelot's other 2014s, this seemed to improve in the glass, the components soon knitting together. Tasted September 2017.—Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate

(80% vendange entier): Good dark red. Purple fruits, saline minerality and bitter chocolate on the nose, lifted by a violet topnote. Juicy, precise and intensely flavored; this has the energy and fruit to support the stem component. Much fresher and more delineated than the Charmes, finishing with good mineral lift.-- Stephen Tanzer, Vinous Media