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The June 2021 Auction: Part 1

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Auction Ends: 6/3/2021 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #28. Antoine Jobard Meursault En La Barre 2017

Description: Consists of 4 Bottles, 0.75L
Score: 91+ WA.
"The 2017 Meursault En la Barre is quite introverted, opening in the glass with a gently reductive bouquet of dried white flowers, pear, citrus oil and iodine. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and textural, with broader shoulders than the domaine's regular Meursault, it's underpinned by a racy spine of acidity. This should really blossom with a little bottle age. When I tasted these wines from barrel last year, I wrote that Antoine Jobard's incisive but concentrated style was a perfect match for the 2017 vintage, and that contention was resoundingly confirmed by their performance in bottle. Antoine took over from his father, François, in 2004, but the rudiments of winemaking here haven't changed: long fermentations, protracted sur-lie élevage without stirring and moderate percentages of new wood are still the order of the day. In the 2015 vintage, Jobard's wines underwent fully 20 months of élevage, the last eight being spent in stainless steel tank, a medium that resulted in much more pronounced reduction than is the case when the wines spend their second winter in wood. Accordingly, he tells me, he has decided to subject his 2017s to a shorter stay in steel—a sensible decision, to my mind. Given Jobard's preference for long élevage, I have decided it is more interesting to review his finished wines in bottle rather than attempting to assess them a year into their élevage, when they are sometimes still troubled by suspended lees or otherwise inscrutable; so I look forward to reporting on his 2018s next year." Wine Advocate Interim, Feb 2020
Provenance: The Bijou Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $275

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