Vin Noe Shadows Saint Aubin 1er Cru La Combe 2023
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Vin Noe Shadows Saint Aubin 1er Cru La Combe 2023

Vin Noe
$155.00

Grape: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2023
Type: White

This low-intervention white Burgundy is a single-barrel expression of chardonnay from the premier cru slopes of Saint Aubin. Winemaker Jonathan Purcell leases the small zero-point-four hectare La Combe parcel, featuring twenty-five-year-old vines with a northeast exposure. The fruit is grown on heavy clay soils, foot-crushed, and direct-pressed straight into a single five-hundred-liter old oak barrel. It undergoes a spontaneous fermentation driven by native wild yeasts and matures for nine months without added sulfur.

It pours a bright straw-yellow color, opening with a refined nose of lime zest, fresh hazelnut, and flinty smokiness. On the palate, a taut and saline frame balances a subtle buttery texture with a vibrant, high-acid core. Clear flavors of green apple and citrus pith interweave nicely across the structured mid-palate. This mineral-driven energy drives a clean, persistent tension that shapes the center cleanly. It finishes dry and persistent, leaving a crisp, mouthwatering trace.

Winery

Vin Noé is Jonathan Purcell’s small Burgundy project, established after he moved from San Diego to study wine in Beaune in 2012. Experience with David Croix and Philippe Pacalet, followed by vineyard work at Domaine de Montille and Domaine Matrot, helped shape his approach. An early collaboration with Chris Santini led to the first Vin Noé bottlings in 2017. Jonathan later took on vineyards around Saint-Aubin and Puligny-Montrachet from Jean-Jacques Morel and moved into Morel’s former cellar in the hamlet of Gamay in 2021.

The project combines those carefully farmed parcels with purchased fruit, allowing a range that extends from more approachable cuvées to specific Burgundian sites. Since the initial vintage, Jonathan has made the wines without added sulfites, putting close attention to grapes, fermentation and handling at the center of the work. Pattaya, Amour Vache and Rêve Américain show different sides of that range. Together, they offer a personal view of Burgundy from a grower whose path began abroad but whose day-to-day work is now rooted in the region’s vineyards.