In Bond per 6x75cl - On Allocation
"Neal Martin, Vinous.com 90-92/100
The 2019 Chassagne-Montrachet La Concis de Champs offers scents of gunflint and wilted white flowers on the nose. The palate is well balanced with a taut, lightly spiced entry. Peach skin and Braeburn apples furnish the finish with a subtle flinty aftertaste erring this towards Puligny. Very fine. Drink 2023 - 2034
William Kelley, The Wine Advocate 89-91/100
'...it is apparent that this is a very special vintage in the making'
Aromas of peach, orange oil and fresh bread preface the 2019 Chassagne-Montrachet Le Concis du Champs, a medium to full-bodied, concentrated and textural wine that's muscular and lively, with a generous core of fruit and fine structuring extract, concluding with a saline finish. This is a richer, more powerful Chassagne than its 2018 counterpart."
Olivier Lamy's wines have a crystalline quality that really makes them stand apart. The impeccable winemaking and perfect balance of ripe acidity means these wines age very well. The domaine’s particularity is the high density at which they plant, including two plots of 30,000 vines per hectare, three times more than normal.
Neal Martin, Vinous.com Dec 2020
Two weeks prior to my visit chez Lamy in Saint-Aubin, I heard that Olivier had tested positive for Covid, fortunately asymptomatically. I must admit trepidation upon arriving, though he was in fine fettle and took the most precautions of any winemaker by relocating the tasting outside the barrel cellar. Tasting in freezing temperatures is not ideal and I began losing sensation in my fingers midway through the Premier Crus, but better to be safe. Lamy explained how poor flowering in spring predicated low yields around 25hl/ha, though there were exceptions to the rule such as the Saint-Aubin Les Princées that reached a respectable yield at 45hl/ha. The harvest started around 7 September with the Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet picked the following day. He was particularly effusive about the texture of his 2019s and the level of phenolics that he opined are better than in 2018. To prove that, he opened five 2018s and then, in what turned into a bit of a marathon tasting, a clutch of 2017s and randomly chosen bottles back to a 2002 Puligny Tremblots. For sure, Lamy’s 2019s are an exemplary showcase of Saint-Aubin’s terroirs, his white infused with compelling salinity and drive, occasionally with subtle earthy aromas that I often find accentuated with maturity. There is always an intellectual aspect to Lamy’s wines, not crowd pleasers, yet that is what can make them so compelling.
