This is Domaine Lignier’s Morey villages bottling from their own vineyard parcels. The 2014 version is quite lovely and is already approachable if not given too long in decanter, as the wine actually closes down with extended aeration right now. The bouquet is pure and nascently complex, wafting from the glass in a fine blend of red plums, cherries, raw cocoa, gamebird, a hint of beetroot, a fine base of soil and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is pure, full and already getting velvety on the attack, with a sappy core, fine focus and grip and a long, moderately tannic finish. This is still a young wine and the oak tannins here build a bit with air, but this is simply a function of their not yet being fully buried in the wine. I would opt for giving this at least three or four years in the cellar, but when confronted with it on a wine list in Burgundy, it is already pretty easy to drink. - JG
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