Domaine Antoine Jobard St-Aubin Sur le Sentier du Clou Premier Cru 2020
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Jasper Morris
Pale colour with a light green streak. This is quite precise, stony, and needs you to go in search of it. Ripe lemons and apples on the palate, actually with quite a striking elegance, with a long finish, not as austere at the back of the palate as expected. Could well grow from here.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Sur le Sentier du Clou has turned out nicely, exhibiting aromas of sweet citrus fruit, white flowers, freshly baked bread and a deft touch of reduction, followed by a medium-bodied, satiny and vibrant palate that's fine-boned and mineral, reflecting this stony site in the Combe of Saint-Aubin.
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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.