2022 Chambolle-Musigny Les Fouchères, 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 plot of ‘Les Foucheres’ has a northeast exposure and the soil is composed of limestone rock, pebbles, gravel, and scree from the Chambolle-Musigny valley, bringing a lovely freshness to this Chambolle. This cooler terroir has benefited very well from the global warming seen in this region over the last few vintages.