HUBERT LAMY 2020 SAINT AUBIN CLOS DU MEIX

WINE ADVOCATE 92 POINTS - "The 2020 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Clos du Meix wafts from the glass with aromas of pear, orange zest, crisp green apple, freshly baked bread, white flowers and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's unusually fleshy for this site, located below Derrière Chez Edouard, but it retains good cut and chalky grip. This is another strikingly good vintage for Olivier Lamy, whose tireless efforts over the last 25 years are now consistently delivering some of contemporary Burgundy's greatest wines. Whether it's cutting-edge viticulture, including plantings at over 20,000 vines per hectare and unhedged canopies; extended maturation on the lees, which now amounts to 24 months in total, 23 of those in largely neutral wood; obsessive attention to closures and bottling practices; or a host of other small details that, cumulatively, make the difference between the best and the rest, Lamy has spared nothing to get to where he is today. While his ultra-rare Haute Densité bottlings are now almost impossible to source, readers will still find it easy to secure his more modest cuvées. Forget them in the cellar for a decade and reap the rewards!"