2015 SAINT AUBIN 1er Cru Clos de la Chatenière Domaine Hubert Lamy, Lea & Sandeman

SAINT AUBIN

2018 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

After the Frionnes this has a much sunnier nose - but then it does face south. A smiling openness, but still dry and mineral, cool and straight. Great purity, it's rocky, crystalline. Very impressive now and should be very fine. L&S (Oct 2019)


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The 2018 Saint-Aubin Clos de Chatenière 1er Cru has exquisite delineation on the nose: wonderful focus and palpable sense of energy and tension. The terroir floods through here. The palate is very well balanced, with razor-sharp acidity, just a mote of reduction. Very good weight with a mineral driven finish that has wonderful sapidity. This is an extremely classy Saint-Aubin. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 white tasting. Drinking range: 2023 - 2040 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2022)

Bursting with aromas of orange oil, green apple, toasted bread and white flowers, the 2018 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Clos de la Chatenière is medium to full-bodied, with a rounder, fleshier profile than the Derrière Chez Edouard, but similarly tensile and mineral in underlying structure. Long and penetrating, this is built to age. Drinking range: 2025 - 2050 Rating: 93 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Jan 2021)

The 2018 Saint-Aubin Clos de la Chatenière 1er Cru has an earthy/loamy nose, tilled soils and white flowers, background aromas of shucked oyster shell. It remains very closed on the palate, though there is fine acidity and it feels concentrated and phenolic on the gooseberry and kiwi fruit-themed finish. Drinking range: 2022 - 2038 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2020)

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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