Lienhardt, Antoine 2023 Cote de Nuits-Villages 'Emphase'
Emphase is a special wine that is essentially a calling card for the best plots in and around Comblanchien. From several plots, with stones and pebbles, clay, and limestone. Harvest is determined by consistent tasting in the vineyards for optimum ripeness. Grapes go through whole cluster semi-carbonic maceration in tank before indigenous yeast fermentation and the wine is aged for 12 months in oak barrels, 10% of which are new. Emphase is a cuvee intended to show the complexity and beauty that occurs when you blend grapes from different soils, exposures, root stock, and vine age (these vines averaging 60-70 years old). There is always beautiful, balanced ripeness and lovely warm fruit, with incredible complexity from the blending of fruit. Only 333 cases produced.