2023 Pommard En Brescul

Laurent Lignier oversees a wide-ranging portfolio, a mixture of Domaine holdings augmented by cuvées from purchased fruit and investments with friends. “I started the picking on September 9 with the Aligoté,” he told me at his winery directly on the RN74, just outside Morey-Saint-Denis. “It was very warm, so we only picked in the morning. Though we did a severe green harvest in July, it was a generous volume because of the size of bunches. We picked the Grand Cru and Premier Crus before the rain. I noticed that some of the berries were beginning to lose moisture because of the heatwave and then after the rain on September 12, the berries became engorged. Sugar levels are not too high: around 13-13.3% and yields were close to the maximum of 40 hl/ha. Thirty percent whole bunches are used on the Premier crus.”