The Lignier family have deep roots in the village of Morey Saint Denis and own 10.5 hectares of some of the very best vineyard sites in this village, and also in the two neighbouring villages of Chambolle Musigny and Gevrey Chambertin. Virgile's father and grand-father had always produced wine and sold it to negotiants until Virgile started working with his father in the early 1990s and he decided to sell the wines himself. Now with almost 20 vintages of experience Virgile has moved the domaine to fully organic viticulture and is producing what many believe to be the best wines of this prestigious village.

An expressive, dense and markedly floral nose is quite ripe but with good freshness on the red and dark berry fruit, with earthy and gamy aromas. There is terrific power and concentration to the stony, muscular and mouth-coating large-scaled flavours that deliver huge length on the impressively complex and youthfully austere finale. This is outstanding though patience will be required.