Sylvain Loichet Saint-Aubin 1er Cru sur Gamay Blanc

Not a producer I’ve ever heard of and a wine from a plot I’ve never tried. According to the JM textbook, the family used to rent out their vines and were in the quarrying business until recently. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been too surprised this turned out to be more oxidized than one would expect for just 13 years (having said that, my comparator for aged Saint Aubin is Lamy so hardly a fair comparison). Not unpleasantly so, in that …