Structure
Drinking window
Best 3 to 30 years from vintage.
vintage3 yrs30 yrs32 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: candied fruit, beeswax, honey
Palate: prune, dried apricot
Picked at the very start of harvest and raisined until late winter, the fermentation stopping around 14 to 16 degrees with sugar left. Ligier records an amber robe with orange glints, an open nose of candied fruit, wax and honey, and a concentrated palate closing on prune and dried apricot. Half bottles only.
What it pairs with
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Foie gras
Named on the domaine's serving card, poured at 6 to 8 degrees. -
Blue-veined cheese
Ligier lists fromages persilles for the sugar and salt contrast. -
Warm tarte tatin
The producer's own dessert suggestion. -
Chocolate desserts
Listed by Ligier; concentration and acidity hold up to cocoa.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Ligier Pere et Fils · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard
- Classification
- Arbois AOC
- Oak
- Bunches from old vines laid in crates in an unheated airy room until January or February, pressed very slowly for 18 to 25 litres per 100 kg, then three years of ageing including at least 18 months in cask
- ABV
- 15.0%
- Drinking window
- 3-30 from vintage