2021 Hubert Lamy Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly
| Type of Wine | White |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | |
| Appellation | |
| Winery | Hubert Lamy |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Grape | |
| Content (Alc) | 0.75 ltr (13%) |
| Drink window | 2025 - 2035 |
Description
The Lamy family has been working in the Saint-Aubin vineyards in Burgundy since 1640. In 1973, after working with his father for many years, Hubert Lamy founded Domaine Hubert Lamy. At that time, the estate consisted of just 8 hectares, located primarily in regional appellations. Today, the estate extends over 18.5 hectares, 80% of which are Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir, spread across the Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet, and Santenay appellations. To combat diseases and pests, they use "lutte raisonnée" or integrated pest management: products that respect nature and are used only when necessary. For the past 10 years, no chemical fertilizers have been used in the vineyards, only organic compost.
The vineyard for the Hubert Lamy Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly is only 1.2 hectares and is situated adjacent to and just above the Chevalier Montrachet plot. The Lamy Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly unfolds in the glass, revealing aromas of crisp stone fruit, fresh bread, dried white flowers, and wet stones, framed by a subtle hint of youthful reduction. Medium to full-bodied and ample yet chiseled, it is taut and mineral, with deep reserves of concentration and a long, salty finish.
Specifications
| Packing information | Box |
|---|---|
| Type of Wine | White |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne |
| Appellation | Saint-Aubin |
| Winery | Hubert Lamy |
| Grape | Chardonnay |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Drinking as of | 2025 |
| Drinking till | 2035 |
| Alcohol % | 13 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 0.75 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 92 |
| Vinous rating | 93 |
| Tasting Profiles | Complex, Droog, Fruitig, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Mineraal, Rond, Vol, Wit fruit |
| Drink moments | Cadeau!, Lekker luxe, Met vrienden, Open haard, Romantisch |
Professional Reviews
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 92
Reviewed by:
William Kelley
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2025 - 2040
The 2021 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly sheds a touch of light reduction in the glass to exhibit aromas of green apple, white flowers, toasted nuts and gunflint. Medium-bodied, satiny and tangy, it unites a certain amplitude of sun-kissed fruit with electric acids and a saline finish. Remilly always exhibits the characteristics of a high-altitude, very stony site that's simultaneously very sunny, but the frost in 2021 has only heightened its internal contrasts.
Oliver Lamy managed to remain remarkably sanguine during the devastating 2021 frosts, which hit Saint-Aubin especially hard, even if late pruning managed to to reduce some of the damage. Since the shock weakened the vines, even if it also radically diminished potential yields, the answer was more work in the vineyards to fight against disease and to mitigate stress—hedging canopies by hand or interweaving their shoots without cutting and, of course, regular phytosanitary treatments. Come harvest, Lamy wasn't all that confident, yet he risked keeping lots of lees in white, and stems in red—and it worked. Of course, these chiseled, electric and concentrated wines are built for the long haul. They clearly surpass their counterparts in 2016, another heavily frosted vintage. They're not made to impress tasters who privilege aroma over texture or winemaking artifice over site expression. But, they are more than worthy of a vigneron 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!
Published: Jan 18, 2024
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Vinous
93
Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
From: A Vintage with Issues: Burgundy 2021 (Oct 2025)
The 2021 Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru also sports some reduction on the nose like de Montille's En Remilly; however, this seems part of the wine and does not shade the mineralité or terroir profile. The palate is lively and tensile with a citric line of acidity, bright and lemony towards the quite persistent finish. This is a delicious Saint-Aubin that is bursting with energy. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
- By Neal Martin on May 2025
93
Drinking Window
2026 - 2045
From: Now, For My Latest Trick: Burgundy 2022 (Jan 2024)
Lamy lost 80% of his crop in 2022, but the Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru retains a thrilling mineral-driven bouquet that puts that trauma aside. So much energy. The palate is well-balanced, sapid, taut and linear, gaining real depth and vigor towards the tensile finish. Very long aftertaste here - a wonderful En Remilly.
- By Neal Martin on November 2023
Like previous years, Olivier Lamy hosted a group tasting, thankfully a little smaller than one or two others. Prior to tasting, Lamy offered us a chance to snoop around his impressive, if half-built, tasting room that will provide visitors with a splendid vista across Saint-Aubin village and over the vineyards beyond. A huge expansion down in the barrel cellar, too, gives Lamy much more room to work. He assiduously left one of the walls exposed so that you can see and touch the complex stratified geology of the area.
Lamy is one of a few vignerons, along with Leflaive and Roulot, that no longer show their vintage in barrel, opting to pour the most recently bottled vintage. I detailed the stürm und drang of 2021 in last year’s report. Therefore, I shall not repeat it here. Suffice it to say that Lamy’s holdings were impacted to widely varying degrees, the hard limestone soils taking the brunt. Yet he still eked out his complete range of cuvées, albeit occasionally in drastically reduced quantities. “Some parcels on the mid-slope were cropped at just 10hL/ha,” he explains. “We de-bud the vines hard earlier in the season, during which we often had to work at weekends, including Sundays.” Lamy produces graphical data from the BIVB that suggests that the season could be seen as “normal” using some metrics. Certainly, he feels that 2021 separated those who spend time in the vines and those who do not, Lamy obviously in the former camp. He picked from September 17 to September 28 using a smaller team than usual. He conducted a 12-day cuvaison for the reds and a shorter élevage, using fewer whole bunches. Most of the wines come in between 12.5% and 13.0% alcohol, and they were bottled in July 2023, the second winter crucial in meliorating the wines.
This set of wines mocks the ill-informed traducing the 2021 vintage. That does not imply that everything came up smelling of roses. Some wines are patently better in other vintages and simply did the best that they could. Yet many are replete with tension and mineralité, at times as complex as their counterparts fortuitously born in more benevolent seasons. The core of Saint-Aubin Premier Crus vary in quality. At their best, you might call them serious, uncompromising wines that will appeal to hardcore Burgundy lovers - cerebral wines to light a dinner table demanding fermented grape juice of the highest order. One interesting aspect of the 2021s, a “perversion,” you might say, is that the frost impacted the Haut-Densité cuvées more than the regular ones since he increased planting density with younger vines that are more susceptible to the frost.
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The Lamy family has been working in the Saint-Aubin vineyards in Burgundy since 1640. In 1973, after working with his father for many years, Hubert Lamy founded Domaine Hubert Lamy. At that time, the estate consisted of just 8 hectares, located primarily in regional appellations. Today, the estate extends over 18.5 hectares, 80% of which are Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir, spread across the Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet, and Santenay appellations. To combat diseases and pests, they use "lutte raisonnée" or integrated pest management: products that respect nature and are used only when necessary. For the past 10 years, no chemical fertilizers have been used in the vineyards, only organic compost.
The vineyard for the Hubert Lamy Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly is only 1.2 hectares and is situated adjacent to and just above the Chevalier Montrachet plot. The Lamy Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly unfolds in the glass, revealing aromas of crisp stone fruit, fresh bread, dried white flowers, and wet stones, framed by a subtle hint of youthful reduction. Medium to full-bodied and ample yet chiseled, it is taut and mineral, with deep reserves of concentration and a long, salty finish.
| Packing information | Box |
|---|---|
| Type of Wine | White |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne |
| Appellation | Saint-Aubin |
| Winery | Hubert Lamy |
| Grape | Chardonnay |
| Biological certified | No |
| Natural wine | No |
| Vegan | No |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Drinking as of | 2025 |
| Drinking till | 2035 |
| Alcohol % | 13 |
| Alcohol free/low | No |
| Content | 0.75 ltr |
| Oak aging | Yes |
| Sparkling | No |
| Dessert wine | No |
| Closure | Cork |
| Parker rating | 92 |
| Vinous rating | 93 |
| Tasting Profiles | Complex, Droog, Fruitig, Houtgerijpt, Krachtig, Mineraal, Rond, Vol, Wit fruit |
| Drink moments | Cadeau!, Lekker luxe, Met vrienden, Open haard, Romantisch |
Parker
The Wine Advocate
RP 92
Reviewed by:
William Kelley
Release Price:
NA
Drink Date:
2025 - 2040
The 2021 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En Remilly sheds a touch of light reduction in the glass to exhibit aromas of green apple, white flowers, toasted nuts and gunflint. Medium-bodied, satiny and tangy, it unites a certain amplitude of sun-kissed fruit with electric acids and a saline finish. Remilly always exhibits the characteristics of a high-altitude, very stony site that's simultaneously very sunny, but the frost in 2021 has only heightened its internal contrasts.
Oliver Lamy managed to remain remarkably sanguine during the devastating 2021 frosts, which hit Saint-Aubin especially hard, even if late pruning managed to to reduce some of the damage. Since the shock weakened the vines, even if it also radically diminished potential yields, the answer was more work in the vineyards to fight against disease and to mitigate stress—hedging canopies by hand or interweaving their shoots without cutting and, of course, regular phytosanitary treatments. Come harvest, Lamy wasn't all that confident, yet he risked keeping lots of lees in white, and stems in red—and it worked. Of course, these chiseled, electric and concentrated wines are built for the long haul. They clearly surpass their counterparts in 2016, another heavily frosted vintage. They're not made to impress tasters who privilege aroma over texture or winemaking artifice over site expression. But, they are more than worthy of a vigneron 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!
Published: Jan 18, 2024
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Vinous
93
Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
From: A Vintage with Issues: Burgundy 2021 (Oct 2025)
The 2021 Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru also sports some reduction on the nose like de Montille's En Remilly; however, this seems part of the wine and does not shade the mineralité or terroir profile. The palate is lively and tensile with a citric line of acidity, bright and lemony towards the quite persistent finish. This is a delicious Saint-Aubin that is bursting with energy. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
- By Neal Martin on May 2025
93
Drinking Window
2026 - 2045
From: Now, For My Latest Trick: Burgundy 2022 (Jan 2024)
Lamy lost 80% of his crop in 2022, but the Saint-Aubin En Remilly 1er Cru retains a thrilling mineral-driven bouquet that puts that trauma aside. So much energy. The palate is well-balanced, sapid, taut and linear, gaining real depth and vigor towards the tensile finish. Very long aftertaste here - a wonderful En Remilly.
- By Neal Martin on November 2023
Like previous years, Olivier Lamy hosted a group tasting, thankfully a little smaller than one or two others. Prior to tasting, Lamy offered us a chance to snoop around his impressive, if half-built, tasting room that will provide visitors with a splendid vista across Saint-Aubin village and over the vineyards beyond. A huge expansion down in the barrel cellar, too, gives Lamy much more room to work. He assiduously left one of the walls exposed so that you can see and touch the complex stratified geology of the area.
Lamy is one of a few vignerons, along with Leflaive and Roulot, that no longer show their vintage in barrel, opting to pour the most recently bottled vintage. I detailed the stürm und drang of 2021 in last year’s report. Therefore, I shall not repeat it here. Suffice it to say that Lamy’s holdings were impacted to widely varying degrees, the hard limestone soils taking the brunt. Yet he still eked out his complete range of cuvées, albeit occasionally in drastically reduced quantities. “Some parcels on the mid-slope were cropped at just 10hL/ha,” he explains. “We de-bud the vines hard earlier in the season, during which we often had to work at weekends, including Sundays.” Lamy produces graphical data from the BIVB that suggests that the season could be seen as “normal” using some metrics. Certainly, he feels that 2021 separated those who spend time in the vines and those who do not, Lamy obviously in the former camp. He picked from September 17 to September 28 using a smaller team than usual. He conducted a 12-day cuvaison for the reds and a shorter élevage, using fewer whole bunches. Most of the wines come in between 12.5% and 13.0% alcohol, and they were bottled in July 2023, the second winter crucial in meliorating the wines.
This set of wines mocks the ill-informed traducing the 2021 vintage. That does not imply that everything came up smelling of roses. Some wines are patently better in other vintages and simply did the best that they could. Yet many are replete with tension and mineralité, at times as complex as their counterparts fortuitously born in more benevolent seasons. The core of Saint-Aubin Premier Crus vary in quality. At their best, you might call them serious, uncompromising wines that will appeal to hardcore Burgundy lovers - cerebral wines to light a dinner table demanding fermented grape juice of the highest order. One interesting aspect of the 2021s, a “perversion,” you might say, is that the frost impacted the Haut-Densité cuvées more than the regular ones since he increased planting density with younger vines that are more susceptible to the frost.
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