Domaine Comte Liger Belair

The domain of Comte Liger-Belair (also called Château de Vosne-Romanée) is recent: it was created in 2000 by Viscount Louis-Michel Liger-Belair. But the establishment of the family in Burgundy is much older. Indeed, the Château de Vosne-Romanée was acquired by Louis Liger-Belair in 1815, with an estate which then comprised 60 hectares (including the famous parcels of La Tache, Malconsorts and Brulées). The family history was relatively tumultuous. The estate was sold at auction in 1933 before the two brothers (Juste and Count Michel) bought part of it. It notably combines this purchase of one of the jewels of Vosne: La Romanée, the smallest AOC in France (0.84 hectares). The plots are however left in sharecropping to winegrowers and Burgundy houses. In 2000, the arrival of Louis-Michel Liger-Belair changed everything. The domain is recreated. He put an end to the sharecropping of La Romanée and the other plots by Bouchard and reclaimed the bottling (from 2001 to 2005, part of the production was still bottled by Bouchard). The nine-hectare estate is managed according to the principles of biodynamic agriculture and has risen to the top of the Côte de Nuits.