Lamy-Caillat, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs Gain, 2015

Name: Lamy-Caillat, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs Gain, 2015
Brand: Lamy-Caillat
SKU: NYC-[AUC]-AUC-AC100525WEEK40-103125-LCCM1CLCG2015-ROW5-BOX 6
Price: 949.0 USD
Availability: InStock

White Wine from Burgundy, France

by Lamy-Caillat

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Burghound writes:"This tiny 1.5 ha old school producer is the creation of the husband and wife team of Florence Lamy and Sébastian Caillat. They produce only whites and the overriding idea is to attend to every detail meticulously and methodically and whenever possible using the old ways of doing things. Their cellars are ice cold and the idea is to rush nothing. There are no timetables and the wines are bottled "whenever they're ready with a light fining but are never filtered". Moreover, they use an old Vaslin cage press, which Caillat notes that 'I press the hell out of the fruit. The idea isn't to obtain the maximum yield but rather to obtain the greatest amount of grape solids into the must. This is the life blood of a white wine, without which they don't have the requisite stuffing to age properly.' Nothing is touched unless absolutely necessary as there are no commercial yeasts, no enzymes, not much new wood and the wines spend 12 months in cask and then another 12 months in tank before ultimately being bottled by hand. Moreover, the wines are expressly and unapologetically built-to-age and based on what I tasted, that's not just marketing. The old school, almost rustic but strikingly authentic style reminds me of what I used to taste in Burgundy in the 1980s."

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Professional Reviews

Antonio Galloni

AG 92

"The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Champ Gains 1er Cru has a very well defined bouquet with wilted yellow flowers, persimmon, white peach and hints of orange zest. This is complex, beautifully defined and very focused. The palate is very well balanced with a fine thread of acidity, a little saline on the first half, admirably strict and linear for a warm vintage. There is a gorgeous spicy vein that comes through towards the finish with a touch of lemongrass on the aftertaste. Superb." -Neal Martin

Robert Parker

RP 92

"Domaine Lamy-Caillat's 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs Gains offers up a lovely bouquet of crisp orchard fruits, Meyer lemon, white peach and arresting floral top-notes of white rose. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, pure and intense, its gourmand, textural attack underpinned by bright acids and concluding with considerable grip on the long, stony finish." -William Kelley

Details

Grape Variety

Chardonnay
Vintage

2015
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Sustainable
Style

Aromatic , Elegant , Rich
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Full Bodied

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