2016 SAINT AUBIN Haute Densité 1er Cru Derrière Chez Édouard Domaine Hubert Lamy, Lea & Sandeman

SAINT AUBIN

2016 Haute Densité 1er Cru Derrière Chez Édouard 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 Derrière Chez Édouard

30,000 vines per hectare (only 30cm between each vine) Just a tiny amount of grapes off each vine - this is about half normal yield per head. Good, compact, intense feel. It is high Density in your mouth. Good cut and line. So much pent up energy drives the bright cirtus juice and the pithy, mineral scrape on and on. Will need some time, but this has immense potential. L&S (Jan 2018)


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(from a vine density of 30,000 vines/ha). Like the regular cuvée, there is that interesting lemon-lime character to the overtly floral-scented nose. The dense, muscular and sappy flavors brim with both minerality and dry extract that confers a textured mouth feel to the strikingly persistent and balanced if very firm finish. This is terrific though be prepared to be patient if you wish to see this at its peak. Drinking range: 2026 - Rating: 92-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jun 2018)

Much tighter and tauter than the Frionnes. Real tension and excitement. And not a silly price for such class. GV Drinking range: 2019 - 2025 Rating: 16.5+ Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Feb 2018)

This is pure dense and compact. It is layered and fine and has a saline minerality. There is tension here. It is slim and trim and mineral. Drinking range: 2022 - Rating: 18 Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing (Nov 2017)

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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