Domaine Lignier Michelot Morey Saint Denis 1Er Aux Cheseaux 2016

The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Aux Chezeaux includes more whole-bunch fruit than the Aux Charmes at 70%. It has a well-defined bouquet of blackberry and sage, later a touch of brine. The aromatics feel quite complex and develop more and more delineation as it opens up. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, just a touch of reduction here but good depth with a little more sweetness and comeliness than the Aux Charmes. This is a well-crafted Morey-Saint-Denis from Virgile.(NM)  Review Date: 12/2017 91-93 points Wine Advocate

From slightly deeper soil than the Aux Charmes; made with 90% whole clusters. Good medium red. Riper and initially more exotic on the nose, but the aroma of black cherry is enlivened by orange zest and mango notes. Juicy and pure but a bit youthfully tight, and the least leathery of these 2016s to this point. Not quite as supple as the preceding wines but boasts lovely freshness and energy and finishes with a firm spine of dusty tannins and excellent length. Lignier told me this wine was a bit herbaceous at the beginning owing to the vinification with 90% whole clusters, "but now it's zesty." There's also a sexy minerality that runs through the wine from entry to aftertaste. Lignier took back these vines in 2008, noting that they hadn't been worked well for 20 years. Review Date: 01/2018 91 points Vinous