Antoine Lienhardt Cote de Nuits Villages Les Plantes aux Bois 2022

This is Antoine’s finest single vineyard wine, and his largest parcel, unusually planted north to south in a prime location on a gentle, 20% east-facing slope with a shallow topsoil and deep limestone below.

The vines are between 50 and 70 year-old, and the wine was given a 10 months elevage in 1 to 7 year-old barrels. A beautiful limpid colour, throughout there are lovely, tart red fruit tones that are open to interpretation: redcurrant, blackberry, tart cherry. The exuberant acidity, delicate and playful tannins, and fierce saline minerality on the finish that make this wine so refreshing, enjoyable and impeccably versatile at the table.