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Hubert Lamy, St Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly 2015
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Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2015 Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru has an exotic bouquet for this vineyard, featuring dried mango, hints of lychee and light passion fruit aromas. It is not unattractive but lacks terroir expression. The palate is fresh and spicy on the entry, displaying a fine bead of lively acidity and demonstrating impressive depth. There is more activity and personality in the mouth than on the nose, and the finish fans out with hints of orange peel and a touch of sour lemon. This is an En Remilly that you end up liking more and more with acquaintance. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting. (DIAM 10 closure)
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Pale, bright yellow. Complex, vibrant aromas of lemon, lime, menthol, mint, white flowers and crushed rock. Tactile, slightly saline and spicy, with its brisk acidity and underlying minerality giving the fine-grained middle palate a slightly metallic quality. Showing less personality today than the Frionnes but this is very closed. Finishes adamantly dry, stony and austere for 2015, with piquant notes of lemon, lime and minerals. Lamy planned to bottle most of his 2015s in July but may wait another month for this one.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright lemon-yellow. Knockout nose combines citrus peel, white pepper and stony minerality. Very concentrated and precise in the mouth, conveying superb energy to its citrus and saline mineral flavors. Strong sappy, dusty extract here and chewy and vibrant on the resounding aftertaste. An outstanding Saint-Aubin wine in the making.
About the Producer
Hubert Lamy / Hubert Lamy Saint Aubin, Côte de Beaune Puligny Montrachet / Chassagne Montrachet / Santenay French magazine selected as 10 winemakers to support Burgundy for the next decade The Lamy family's history of growing grapes in Saint Aubin dates back to 1640. Hubert learned management and brewing from start to finish with his father Jean. It was renamed Hubert Lamy in 1973 and only holds 8 hectares of vineyards. The young owner and winemaker Olivier Lamy has experienced the baptism of wine-producing countries in the world, and followed Jean-Nicolas Méo in the famous winery Méo-Camuzet to learn the cultivation of natural dynamic methods, and has very high strictness on the quality and yield of grapes standard. In 1995, he returned to the winery to take over the brewing work and inherited the mantle. The vineyard area has now been expanded to 17 hectares. At the same time as the expansion of the wine cellar, it was also changed to the design of natural gravity. The winery has long become the leading liquor maker in Burgundy, France. 70% of the production is sold out by foreign buyers, which is a testament to the high level of Lamy's wines. In terms of planting, the winery adopts the home-style leading branch, and from May to August, green harvesting is carried out every month to take into account the possible changes in the climate and gradually reduce the yield. And it has already been changed to an organic method to strengthen the ecological constitution in the vineyard. The special thing about Hubert Lamy is that he abandoned the small oak barrels of Barrique (225 liters) commonly used in Burgundy, and used a small amount of 300 liters, most of which were fermented and stored in large oak barrels of 600 liters, and almost no longer stirred the barrels after completion. And no filtration and clarification are carried out to maintain the natural pure and dense flavor of the wine, amplifying the terroir flavor to the extreme, which is impressive. Another special feature of the winery is that the highest record per hectare is an ultra-high planting density of up to 30,000 grapes (usually about 12,000), so that a vine often leaves only 2 bunches of fruits, and all the flavors are preserved. Concentrated in fruit grains. In addition, Saint Aubin village is relatively poor and full of soft calcareous soil soil conditions, so that each grape must strive to take root in order to seek nutrients, and thus absorb rich minerality, maintaining the unique concentration and density of the winery. Degrees, like ancient Sparta-like rigorous training, bear the perfect fruit of healthy concentrated concentration. The winery style has a distinctly sharp acidity and at the same time feels the impression of a concentrated and dense fruit, which develops over time as the flavour layers emerge. Bold planting and brewing techniques have created a great Burgundy that is pure, neat, and terroir-led.
