2022 Domaine Hubert Lamy Saint Aubin 1er Cru Derrière chez Edouard Cuvée Haute Densité

This singular wine comes from 0.7 hectares planted at a density of 30,000 vines per hectare more than 20 years ago. The vines are at the top of the vineyard, where the soil is incredibly rocky and the mesoclimate is the coolest. They are spaced around 30cm apart from each other along the axis of the row, and the row width is one metre. At such a density, Lamy typically gets a maximum of three tiny clusters per vine (sometimes one, sometimes none!), and the entire plot only yields enough juice to fill the contents of a barrel or two. This plot produces completely different wines from the rest of the vineyard and subsequently led Lamy to increase the density in several other parcels, including Les Tremblots (Puligny; 22,000 vines/ha) and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet (24,000 vines/ha). As you would imagine, distributor allocations of Lamy’s Haute Densité