Hubert Lignier Chambolle-Musigny 'Les Bussieres' 2023

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Hubert Lignier Chambolle-Musigny 'Les Bussieres' 2023Les Bussires sits just below the premier cru Les Sentiers (and just down slope from grand cru Bonnes Mares), hard on the border of Morey Saint Denis. The Ligniers exploit just under a half hectare of vines herea total of four parcels, planted between 1947 and 1983and the wine they produce from here combines a classically Chambolle elegance with a certain mineral derived strictness, a structure deriving more from intense calcareousness than overt

Sébastien Genovesi destems the grapes and employs a lengthy maceration with daily pigeage and remontage

Surprisingly

Conrad Caloz has begun to raise his Humagne Rouge

striking all of the notes one would expect from the variety

Cabernet Franc forms the backbone of this wine (90%) but is blended with a touch of Grolleau (10%)

The combination of warm daytime temperatures and Yvorne’s solar-panel-like vineyard expositions ensures fully ripe grapes

and has an intriguing interplay of ripe vine fruit and a bitter sapidity

Atlante’s Listán Negro showcases its relatively cool microclimate of origin

and one high-slope with whiter soil

Longtime fans of RWM’s special cadre of Left Bank growers will feel right at home with Stella Puel and Château Bardins

around 400 meters above sea level

this borderline-stern minerality works in tandem with the texturally luscious fruit profile to create something of striking complexity and kinetic energy

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