Lignier-Michelot Coteaux Bourguignons Rouge Cuvee 822 2022 CACOFFER light orchard fruit and cinnamon

light orchard fruit and cinnamon honey with a sublimely velvety texture

no fining—just pristine fruit and mineral character that opens up beautifully as it breathes

Labbe et Fils is a small grower estate that champions sustainable farming and low-intervention winemaking in Champagne

with layers of black cherry

followed by notes of warm spices and walnuts

Lignier-Michelot Coteaux Bourguignons Rouge Cuvee 822 2022 CACOFFER light orchard fruit and cinnamonThe 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