BARBARESCO Riserva Sottimano 2013 vs CHARMES CHAMBERTIN Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot 2013

Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. CHARMES CHAMBERTIN Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot 2013 currently starts £19.95 lower.

AvailabilityIn stockIn stock
Best current price£294.95£275.00
Current stockists1 merchant1 merchant
StyleOtherOther
GrapeNebbioloPinot Noir
RegionBarbaresco
ABV14.5%13%
Size750ml750ml
Where to buy

BARBARESCO Riserva Sottimano 2013

The Sottimano 2013 Barbaresco Riserva is dense and explosive right out of the gate. Rich dark fruit, kirsch, blood orange, cloves, licorice and leather power through. The Riserva, a selection of old-vine fruit from Cottá and Pajorè is a big wine that, in 2013, captures the house style of the era, a time when the wines were marked quite a bit by French oak and just as Sottimano was beginning to experiment with longer macerations. As such, it is a wine that belongs to a previous era here. Over the last few months the elements have started to come together nicely.

CHARMES CHAMBERTIN Grand Cru Domaine Lignier-Michelot 2013

Dark red-ruby. Deep, brooding aromas of very ripe, musky black fruits and black licorice complicated by a tarry element. Fat, silky and sweet but vinous too; in a rather muscular, powerful style but lifted by strong peppery/herbal acidity. Tannins saturate the entire palate. This dry, classic, thick wine needs several years in the cellar to come into harmony and may ultimately merit an even higher rating.

Prices and availability reflect the latest tracked merchant checks and may change before checkout.