In a time where the wines of neighbours Puligny and Chassagne are reaching eye-watering price levels, the village of Saint-Aubin with its rocky, limestone laden soils and great exposure seems like the obvious choice for sourcing mineral, racy white Burgundies. Brothers Didier and Denis Larue (recently joined by Denis’s son Bruno) run this 15-ha family Domaine, with vineyards located in the best premier crus Saint-Aubin but also in Puligny and Chassagne. The wines are unapologetically mineral, dry, tensed and precise, like true great white Burgundies. They seem to have serious ageing potential but deliver immense pleasure at an early age too.
Chassagne Montrachet may be world renowned for it's fantastic white wines, about 40% of the wine made every year is of the red variety. Full of aromas of morello cherries and spicy raspberry fruits, this is a wine of real substance. Deliciously fleshy, with rounded tannins this wine is wonderfully complex, that unravels in a long lingering finish.
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