Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey St-Aubin Le Banc 2017
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If you want to understand why people are so besotted with Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey's white wines, buy yourself a bottle of his entry point St-Aubin, which comes from a single parcel aged between 20 and 50 years. Matured in 25% new wood, it's as crisp as a freshly laundered white shirt, with cool precision and a lick of limestone zip.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Saint-Aubin is one of my favorite Burgundy appellations, and the 2017 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Le Blanc is a superb wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is generous without being heavy. Its aromas and flavors of delicious ripe fruit and mineral accents are bright and persistent. Pair it with seared sea scallops in a bed of wild, organic greens. (Tasted: February 25, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Saint-Aubin Le Banc offers up aromas of green orchard fruit, citrus oil and almond paste, followed by a medium to full-bodied, elegantly glossy palate with good depth at the core, tangy acids and a chalky finish. It's a great introduction to Pierre-Yves Colin's style.
Barrel Sample: 88-90
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
A steep, upcountry basin (referred to as a combe in French) in the southern end of the Côte de Beaune, St. Aubin is a direct westerly neighbor to Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet. Recent years have seen a boom in white wine production so that now Chardonnay accounts for more than three quarters of area under vine here. Two thirds of St. Aubin is classified Premier Cru (30 total vineyards); most notable include Les Charmois, La Chatenière, En Remilly and Les Murgers Dents de Chie. The Premiers Crus of St. Aubin, wrapping like a ribbon upon the southeast and southwest facing slopes, produce fresh and elegant whites from Chardonnay. When young, these tout a refreshing grip and convey qualities of white flowers, citrus, pear, green almond and wet stone. Given some age, a graceful evolution occurs so that older St. Aubin whites express richer aromas of beeswax, honey, marzipan and spice.