The Liger-Belair family settled in Vosne-Romanée when Comte Louis Liger-Belair, napoleonic general, acquired the Château de Vosne in 1815. The Domaine grew considerably under the general’s direction and that of the Comte Louis-Charles, his son, amounting to more than sixty hectares principally in the Côte de Nuits with ownership of some of France’s most prestigious appellations: the monopoles of La Romanée, La Tâche, La Grande Rue, a large portion of Malconsorts, parcels of Chaumes, Reignots, and Suchots in Vosne-Romanée, Saint Georges and Vaucrains in Nuits-St.-Georges, Clos de Vougeot and Cras in Vougeot, Chambolle, Morey, as well as Chambertin. When Comte Henri Liger-Belair, grandson of the Comte Louis-Charles, died in 1924 he left a wife and ten children in possession of twenty-four hectares of vines and the Château. The Domaine held together until the death of the Comtesse Liger-Belair in 1931. Inheritance law at the time stated that all children had to be of age in order to distribute the inheritance or the estate must be sold. Sadly some family members could not wait for the two Liger-Belair minors to come of age and on August 31st 1933, at the town hall of Vosne-Romanée, the vineyards were auctioned off. The children witnessed the departure from their patrimony of La Tache, the Malconsorts, the Brûlées. However, two of the children, a priest, and his brother, the Comte Michel, Louis-Michel’s grandfather, banded together to buy back La Romanée, Reignots, and les Chaumes. The vineyards were entrusted to local vignerons, and sales to Burgundian negoçiants. The Comte Michel died in 1941, during the war, before he could redevelop the Domaine. His son, the Comte Henry, Louis Michel’s father, who enlisted in the army and rose to rank of general, managed the Domaine by leaving vineyard work to sharecroppers, and commercialisation to various shippers. Since 2000, his son the Comte Louis-Michel controls all aspects of production from vineyard to bottle and has in a short time steered the Domaine back into the top echelons of Burgundian winegrowing.
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