Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Clos du Meix

Clos du Meix is Domaine Hubert Lamy's monopole — a sole-ownership Premier Cru that Olivier Lamy vinifies and bottles as a parcel-precise portrait of Saint-Aubin's geology, unblended with any other climat. The Lamy family's viticultural roots in Saint-Aubin trace to 1640, but it is Olivier who redrew the domaine's technical identity, replacing standard 228 L barriques with 300–600 L demi-muids (mostly 1–5 years old, 0–15% new wood) — a deliberate anti-premox and anti-oak-dominance strategy he pioneered before it became a Côte de Beaune convention.

The vineyard sits on shallow clay-limestone soils, 20–40 cm deep over hard limestone bedrock, at roughly 230–350 m elevation in the Côte de Beaune. That thin soil cap forces root systems deep into fractured rock, delivering the chiselled, site-specific limestone minerality that separates Saint-Aubin from its richer southern neighbours.

Fermentation proceeds with indigenous yeasts over approximately 90 days in a temperature-controlled white-wine cellar, followed by malolactic fermentation in barrel and 24 months of lees aging, then a further 6 months in tank before bottling under DIAM cork. Bâtonnage is restrained or absent. SO₂ additions are minimal, applied only after the first year of aging.

As a monopole, Clos du Meix offers something no négociant can replicate: a single-owner, single-vintage, single-site reading of this exact limestone pocket — uncut by blending decisions. The 2021 vintage, shaped by frost pressure and cool growing conditions, delivers the appellation's most classically proportioned profile: bright, taut acidity and precise minerality over a restrained, textural frame. Drink from 2025 through 2032+.