Thibault Liger Belair, Richebourg Vintage:2011 Adelaide Hills

Adelaide Hills

The lively and beautifully well-delineated medium weight flavors seem to be built on a firm base of minerality before culminating in a moderately austere

Fades a bit fast

Convincing rather than just dry

Thibault Liger Belair, Richebourg Vintage:2011 Adelaide Hills(from a . 52 ha parcel). A very fresh but tight and reserved nose of highly spiced and nuanced red and blue pinot fruit that precedes big bodied flavors that are classic Richebourg as theyre cool, classy, powerful and tautly muscular with excellent detail and subtle minerality on the spicy, mouth coating and moderately austere and linear finish. This is a lighter wine for the appellation but there is plenty of character and its focused like a laser.