2022 Chambolle-Musigny Les Beaux Bruns, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair

The history of Thibault’s family in wine is quite layered and complex, dating back 300 years. But jumping three centuries of different generations, we arrive in 2001 and find a young and highly driven Thibault taking back various family parcels that had been contracted to other local vignerons. He farms biodynamically and works in similar fashion in the cuverie. He is not afraid of new oak and chooses the trees from which his barrels are made. He is an advocate of whole bunch, too, though he varies it enormously, being dictated to by either the vintage or the parcel. He even recently designed his own stainless-steel vats so they would have the right natural flow of juice within them. The wines still have plenty of fruit, but the quality of tannins and the lacey details of the wines have become more pronounced, reaching their zenith with the 2022 vintage. These are lovely wines, as engaging and charming as Thibault himself. The parcel ‘Les Beaux Bruns’ sits on deeper, more clay influenced soils on the lower slopes of Chambolle-Musigny, giving a wine of greater breadth and structure compared to higher altitude sites in the village.