Lignier-Michelot Coteaux Bourguignons Rouge Cuvee 822 2022 hide-gift-message Distilled using copper pot stills

Distilled using copper pot stills and built upon a Mexican-sourced neutral grain distillate of corn

then six more in rejuvenated American and European oak wine casks

The straight bourbon bottling has a warming nose of molasses

a cooperative of producers in Santiago Matatlan dating back to 1930

Lignier-Michelot Coteaux Bourguignons Rouge Cuvee 822 2022 hide-gift-message Distilled using copper pot stillsThe name is not code for anything romantic: Virgile Lignier labels this wine for the tank it lives in (No. 8) and the vintage (2022). What's inside is 100% Pinot Noir from vines planted in 1991 on clay and limestone, on a parcel that sits just outside the Morey Saint Denis boundary. Same hands, same organic farming, same ambient yeast fermentation and mostly used oak as the wines that cost four times as much, all separated by a line on a map. It's