Thibault Liger-Belair Chambolle Foucheres 2018

Thibault Liger-Belair Chambolle Foucheres 2018

The Liger-Belair family has passed down the tradition of winemaking from generation to generation for the past 250 years. In 1720, Claude Marey, the king’s secretary, mayor of Nuits-Saint-Georges, and a vineyard proprietor, founded the C. Marey house to sell his fine wines. In 1804 his youngest son, Guillaume Felix Marey, took over the business. In 1852, Guillaume’s nephew, Comte LigerBelair, proprietor of Grands Crus in Vosne-Romanée, became his business partner under the name “C. Marey et Comte Liger-Belair”. The domaine was passed down through the family for the next five generations. In 1982, Xavier Liger-Belair died and the business was sold. That same year Xavier’s son, Vincent Liger-Belair, took over the buildings and restructured the domaine by having three sharecropper winemakers handle the work.

It is next to the Premier Cru “les Borniques” to the east and to the south, about fifty meters from the Grand Cru “le Musigny”. Situated on reddish brown clays rich in iron oxides on about 30 cm then we find very quickly the limestones of Chambolle Musigny. Its north-east exposure and the influence of the combe mixed with its limestone soil gives a great freshness to this chambolle. The global warming in our vineyards of these last vintages are very well suited to this colder terroir of origin.