Saint-Aubin Blanc 2020
- White
- 75 cl
Intense and delicate, this white Saint Aubin from the Mazilly house is already very open at the aromatic level.
Typical of the great white wines of Burgundy in an extremely promising 2020 vintage.
tasting
Saint-Aubin Blanc 2020
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Complex
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Powerful
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Mineral
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Fruity
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Woody
Saint Aubin Blanc 2020
The Saint Aubin are one of the booming appellations in Burgundy: located in the golden triangle of the great whites of Burgundy, this village in the south of the Côte de Beaune offers great white wines often racy and intense.
This white Saint Aubin 2020 is no exception: delicate but already intense, it will offer you in the mouth a very good balance between flexibility and vivacity, on an expression of a beautiful complexity.
Ample in the middle of the mouth, the finish will then be delicate, to give way to a real length.
Harvest entirely manual, aging oak barrels.
Possible keeping 3 to 5 years.
Wine serving temperature: 12 to 13°
food pairing
Intense and floral Burgundy white wine: terrine, small oven, freshwater fish, sushi, crab, prawns, seafood, veal in white sauce, poultry blanquette, poultry fillets, county, gouda, camembert, brie
features
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Appellation
Village -
Type of Wine
Still -
Wine Making
Oak casks -
Grape Variety
Chardonnay -
Harvest
Manual -
Burgundy Region
Côte de Beaune -
Vintage
2020 -
Service
12 to 14 degrees -
Custody potential
2025
appellation
Saint Aubin
Wine Characteristics
White: Saint-Aubin is the colour of sunshine, with golden highlights whose exact shade varies according to where it is grown and in what year. When young, it combines aromas of white flowers, flint, green almond, and orangeflower.
Richer fragrances come with age: beeswax and honey, marzipan, ambergris, and cinnamon. This is a firm and flattering wine - a bit sharp to start with but which becomes fleshier and fuller with time. This is a wine with real breeding.
Red: this wine is dark garnet or crimson colour, with strawberry cheeks. Its aromas are redolent of blackcurrant, Morello cherry, blackberry. These are set off by spicy notes, sometimes mocha. In the mouth it is fat and silky with a lively finish. Age adds suppleness, warmth and persistence.
Wine Steward’s Tip
White: its nobility and distinction derives from a subtle balance between elegant freshness and a rich but not excessive unctuousness which gives it great fluidity in the mouth. With a wine like this, firm-textured fish and grilled or steamed crustaceans would be at ease. It would also make a perfect finishing touch to dense-fleshed poultry.
Serving temperature: 12 to 14°C.
Red: pithy and solid, its virility requires flavourful meats like roast beef or pork, glazed or caramelised poultry, blue cheeses, or even foie gras whose richness would be amply balanced by the wine’s tannins.
Serving temperature: 15°C.
Situation
A close neighbour of Montrachet, lying between Chassagne and Puligny, Saint-Aubin is a wine-growing village in the southern part of the Côte de Beaune, the heartland of the great white Bourgogne wines. The area covered by the appellation Village includes 30 Premiers Crus Climats. The neighbouring hamlet of Gamay may have given its name to the Gamay grape. The 13th century fortress stands on solid rock from which it seems to draw its strength as the vine draws sap from the soil. The appellation was granted recognition in 1937.
Terroirs
The white grapes grow on white clays with a high limestone content; the reds prefer brownish clays. The slopes are steep in places and face East or southeast. Altitude varies between 300 and 350 metres.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
Estate
Domaine Mazilly
Burgundy has been the cradle of the Mazilly family for several generations.
In the early 1950s, Pierre Mazilly succeeded his grandfather. His son Frédéric and grandson Aymeric have taken up the torch and continue the family tradition. The Mazilly family takes care of all stages of production itself, from the work in the vineyard to bottling, in order to always offer high quality wines.
The premises are located in Meloisey, a small village in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune region with a winemaking tradition for centuries, and it is even said that Meloisey wine was served at the coronation of Philippe-Auguste in 1179.
Since 2001, most of the wines have been aged and aged in the cellars located in Meursault.The estate's vineyards, 18 hectares in total, are mainly located in the Hautes Côtes de Beaune, but also in renowned appellations such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Pommard, Volnay or Meursault...
