The 2017 Beaune Clos Saint-Landry 1er Cru is a two-hectare monopole that has been planted with Chardonnay since the 13th century. It has a lightly honeyed bouquet of acacia and brioche. The energetic palate is well balanced, with a fine bead of acidity and a chalky finish that exhibits just the right amount of salinity. –NM
This has a wealth of peach and gently nutty notes with a smooth array of fresh bread and hazelnut biscuits on the palate. Good freshness here with yellow peach to close.
Tight and gingery, this wine needs air to show its delicate scents of stone
fruit and honeysuckle. It’s spicy and peppery, a round wine that hints at
the detail it will offer with several years in bottle.
Rich and bursting with peach, apple and vanilla flavors. The oak is very discreet and overall this is harmonious and long. Offers a firm, chalky finish.
Broad and creamy, this offers peach, lemon and baking spice aromas and flavors. Open and charming, with a persistent finish.
Tight and gingery, this wine needs air to show its delicate scents of stone
fruit and honeysuckle. It’s spicy and peppery, a round wine that hints at
the detail it will offer with several years in bottle.
Straw-yellow. Subtle perfume of citrus peel and white peach lifted by almond flower and nutmeg. Silky-smooth and rich verging on opulent, delivering serious concentration as a result of the tiny crop load. Plump and sweet but with adequate shaping acidity. A mouth filling wine with restrained sweetness, sneaky length and plenty of immediate appeal. But there's underlying minerality here as well.
Rich and bursting with peach, apple and vanilla flavors. The oak is very discreet and overall this is harmonious and long. Offers a firm, chalky finish.
Straw-yellow. Subtle perfume of citrus peel and white peach lifted by almond flower and nutmeg. Silky-smooth and rich verging on opulent, delivering serious concentration as a result of the tiny crop load. Plump and sweet but with adequate shaping acidity. A mouth filling wine with restrained sweetness, sneaky length and plenty of immediate appeal. But there's underlying minerality here as well.
The 2018 Beaune 1er Cru Clos Saint-Landry Blanc offers up aromas of mirabelle plums, apricot and white flowers, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and textural palate that's ripe and enveloping but which remains nicely defined. Again, this will drink well young.
