2008-SAINT-AUBIN-1er-Cru-Clos-de-la-Chatenière-Domaine-Hubert-Lamy

SAINT AUBIN

2008 1er Cru Clos de la Chatenière Domaine Hubert Lamy

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Saint Aubin
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Clos de la Chatenière

New wood has been reduced in this vintage to a mere 10%, and since all the wines go into demi-muids (twice the size of the traditional burgundy barrel), this is a very low-key influence in a wine-making style which emphasizes fruit and mineral above all. Like the Frionnes, the Chateniere is tightly drawn, intensely mineral. A very complete wine, which will give its best at four to seven years old. L&S (Nov 2009)


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The 2008 Saint-Aubin Clos de la Chatenière 1er Cru has an attractive wet wool, lanolin, damp moss scented nose, fully mature and well defined. The palate is well balanced with a fine a bead of acidity, citrus fresh, maybe a little nutty in style with a spicy finish. Fine Drinking range: 2022 - 2028 Rating: 89 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Aug 2022)

Tight and focused and very impressive. This has taken on a bit more fat than when I first tasted it. No compromises. Very pure and exciting. Lamy is very much a force to be reckoned with. Really pure and much more convincing than many Meursaults, Pulignys and Chassagnes. Long. But not cheap... Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Dec 2010)

Bright lemon-yellow. Ripe aromas of yellow peach and spices. Quite suave and stylish on entry, then ripe but dry in the middle, with suggestions of exotic fruits firmed on the back end by an oyster-shell minerality. With aeration, ripe but vibrant stone fruit notes emerged and the long, brisk finish retained strong minerality. Rating: 90 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Sept 2010)

Domaine Hubert Lamy

Olivier Lamy has built on the solid foundations his father Hubert prepared with twenty years and more of work in the vineyards. Today the Domaine has 18.5 hectares of vines - 80% are Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir. The vines are in several appellations - Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, as well as the excellent Bourgogne Blanc. The reputation of the domaine is now made, but the Saint Aubins, both red and white, remain some of the bargains of Côte d'Or, and challenge the supposed superiority of the grander village names on a regular basis, both in terms of young and mature wines.

Olivier's wine-making style and preference is to emphasise the fresh and the mineral side of his wines, and there is very little new wood in this cellar, with many wines with no new wood at all, and that is with the wines in 600 litre demi-muids rather that the classic Burgundy (225 litre) fût. Certainly Oliver's whites do have an arrow-like purity and intensity, and seem to age completely straight and true.

The reds are worth more than a casual mention too. Olivier has been getting some consultation help from Sylvain Pataille, and the wines have energy and bounce along with the supple tannins and ripeness.

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