2019 St Aubin, Sur le Sentier du Clou, 1er Cru, Joseph Colin, Burgundy
Critics reviews
Joseph likes to pick this first. This site gets the sun earlier, and indeed the bouquet is more perfumed, with just a little touch of beneficial reduction. Joseph aims to keep all the CO2 gas, which is adding a nice little tingle. Enough flesh behind, very well balanced, a fuller white fruit to finish. 13.6% alcohol.
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
Touches of mineral reduction and exotic fruit can be found on the white and yellow fruit aromas where a touch passion fruit lurks in the background. The succulent, fleshy and citrusy medium-bodied flavors possess fine volume and energy while exhibiting very good length on the balanced finale. Drink 2024+
Allen Meadows, Burghound
Mingling scents of citrus zest and white flowers with hints of green apple, peach and blanched almonds, the 2019 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Le Sentier du Clou is medium-bodied, bright and chiseled, with tangy acids and an elegantly fleshy core of fruit. Drink 2020-2033
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Mingling scents of citrus zest and white flowers with hints of green apple, peach and blanched almonds, the 2019 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Le Sentier du Clou is medium-bodied, bright and chiseled, with tangy acids and an elegantly fleshy core of fruit. Joseph Colin—who left Domaine Marc Colin to start a domaine of his own in 2016—is going from strength to strength and is justly delighted with his 2019 portfolio. "We've never had acidities like this with maturity like this," he exclaimed, emphasizing the importance of knowing one's parcels and harvesting at the right moment in a year when sugar could accumulate precipitously. Colin's approach, as I've written before, is to pick ripe grapes, press whole bunches and barrel down without the addition of sulfites or any settling—sulfur dioxide is added only at bottling (which takes place under Diam closures). Wines that are more generously sulfured, he acknowledges, are more tensile and tight-knit, but the tension, he argues, comes from the sulfur, not the terroir. And Colin is happy with what he describes as 'a certain immediacy' that comes from low-sulfur élevage, a quality that was manifest in these generous but chiseled 2019s, all of which come heartily recommended.
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (Jan 2021)
About this WINE
Domaine Joseph Colin
Joseph Colin is one of the four children of Marc Colin of St Aubin. Having worked at the family domaine until the 2016 vintage, Joseph decided, like his brother Pierre-Yves Colin- Morey before him, to strike out on his own: he took his six-hectare share of the vineyards and set up in the small cellar under his parents’ house. His philosophy is that wines are made in the vineyard and as such his winemaking shouldn’t dominate the wines. He uses relatively little sulphur; new oak is around 15% across the range, never exceeding 20%.
Chardonnay
Chardonnay is often seen as the king of white wine grapes and one of the most widely planted in the world It is suited to a wide variety of soils, though it excels in soils with a high limestone content as found in Champagne, Chablis, and the Côte D`Or.
Burgundy is Chardonnay's spiritual home and the best White Burgundies are dry, rich, honeyed wines with marvellous poise, elegance and balance. They are unquestionably the finest dry white wines in the world. Chardonnay plays a crucial role in the Champagne blend, providing structure and finesse, and is the sole grape in Blanc de Blancs.
It is quantitatively important in California and Australia, is widely planted in Chile and South Africa, and is the second most widely planted grape in New Zealand. In warm climates Chardonnay has a tendency to develop very high sugar levels during the final stages of ripening and this can occur at the expense of acidity. Late picking is a common problem and can result in blowsy and flabby wines that lack structure and definition.
Recently in the New World, we have seen a move towards more elegant, better- balanced and less oak-driven Chardonnays, and this is to be welcomed.
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Joseph likes to pick this first. This site gets the sun earlier, and indeed the bouquet is more perfumed, with just a little touch of beneficial reduction. Joseph aims to keep all the CO2 gas, which is adding a nice little tingle. Enough flesh behind, very well balanced, a fuller white fruit to finish. 13.6% alcohol.
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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