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Jonathan Newman 90/100
Wine Enthusiast - 88 Rating

"..The result is a delicious wine with great depth of flavor -- it's like a river of ripe blueberry and black currant fruit. It's a fruit-forward French wine that New World drinkers will love."

"This is a special wine from an interesting place. For many generations, the Ligneres family have been grape growers -- and family doctors -- in the foothills of Mt. Alaric in southern France. They have always been important leaders in the region, and in the latter part of the 1990s they decided to lead a movement to show that the wines of their region are of world-class quality. They are like the Robert Mondavi of Corbieres -- they think the region's future demands the great wines they know their old-vine grapes are capable of. They invested in state-of-the-art winemaking equipment, while in the vineyards they insisted on cultivation and harvesting by hand. They hired a celebrity winemaker, Stefano Chioccioli, the first Italian winemaker to receive 100 points from Robert Parker. Chioccioli was extremely selective in making this Rhone-style wine; he used two types of sorting table, and took advantage of the Ligneres' high-tech, gentle tank-transfer system. He stirred the lees every week during fermentation and aged the wine for 14 months in oak barrels, 50% of which were new."




(Product description)
 
UNIT SIZE: 750.00 ml
VARIETAL: Blend
VINTAGE: 2003
COUNTRY: France
REGION: France

Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
 

Product Description:

Domaine Famille Ligneres Le Signal 2003

By Jonathan Newman

2003 Le Signal
Wine Type: Dry Red Wine
Wine Varietal: 68% Carignan, 13% Grenache, 12% Mourvedre, 7% Syrah
Appellation: Montagne d'Alaric, France
By Jonathan H. Newman
Rating: 90
This is a special wine from an interesting place. For many generations, the Ligneres family have been grape growers -- and family doctors -- in the foothills of Mt. Alaric in southern France. They have always been important leaders in the region, and in the latter part of the 1990s they decided to lead a movement to show that the wines of their region are of world-class quality. They are like the Robert Mondavi of Corbieres -- they think the region's future demands the great wines they know their old-vine grapes are capable of. They invested in state-of-the-art winemaking equipment, while in the vineyards they insisted on cultivation and harvesting by hand. They hired a celebrity winemaker, Stefano Chioccioli, the first Italian winemaker to receive 100 points from Robert Parker. Chioccioli was extremely selective in making this Rhone-style wine; he used two types of sorting table, and took advantage of the Ligneres' high-tech, gentle tank-transfer system. He stirred the lees every week during fermentation and aged the wine for 14 months in oak barrels, 50% of which were new. The result is a delicious wine with great depth of flavor -- it's like a river of ripe blueberry and black currant fruit. It's a fruit-forward French wine that New World drinkers will love.

By Wine Enthusiast

2003 Domaine Famille Lignères Le Signal Rouge Rhône Red Blend, Corbières

Rating: 88

Producer: Domaine Famille Ligneres

Vintage: 2003

Designation: Le Signal Rouge

Varietal: Rhone Red Blend

Appellation: Corbieres

One of the winery’s larger cuvées at 5,000 cases, this is a blend of Carignan, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Grenache with wonderfully spice-driven aromatics and a creamy-smooth texture on the palate. Drink now. — W.E. (9/1/2007) Acadia Imports

 

By mfwsales.com

Le Signal 2003

Appellation: Montagne d’Alaric, Corbières, France

Varietals: Carignan, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah

Estate: Domaine Famille Lignères

www.ligneres.com

 

VITICULTURE – Le Signal

Plantation: 4500 vines/hectare (1800 vines/acre)

Age of Vines: Carignan: 40- 60, Grenache: 20, Mourvèdre: 8 and 20, Syrah: 15 and 20 yrs

Soil Type: Calcareous gravel terraces

Cultivation: Complete cultivation with ploughing of rows, by hand between vines

Pruning: Gobelet, Syrah: High trained gobelet

Crop Mgmt.: Green-harvest during and after veraison

 

HARVESTING

Method: 100 % hand harvested

Yields: 27 (hectoliters/hectare)

Sorting: Extremely selective with use of both vibrating and sorting tables

De-Stem/Crush: Specially adapted Delta N1 or N2 depending on the grape variety

Tank Transfer: Pioneering system which allows for gentler handling of grapes and juice