Winemaker Notes
A chiseled, tense and mineral wine. On the palate, it offers a profile very typical of the terroir, a balance between freshness and unctuousness with notes of dried fruit and candied citrus.
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine offers fragrant aromas of lightly toasted almonds and singed lemon skin, mingled with notes of white peach, green pear and wet stone. The round palate is filled with lemon verbena, tangerine and salty almond, harmoniously intertwined. Serve with tender poultry dishes accompanied by light citrus sauces.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Prosper Maufoux Saint-Aubin Premier Cru Clos du Château deftly combines fruit and oak into wine of attractive nuances. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits attractive aromas and flavors of ripe apple, light oakiness, and dried earth. Enjoy it with grilled chicken thighs. (Tasted: June 10, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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.