92 John Gilman - View from the Cellar

"La Chatenière lies immediately downslope from Sur Gamay and is a much smaller, slip of a premier cru, with one of the steepest grades in the appellation of forty-five degrees. Consequently, this is one of the most minerally wines to be found in this section of premier crus in St. Aubin. The Prudhon family owns just over ten ares of vines here, aged forty years of age, and in a typical vintage, one of the two and a half barrels is new for the elevage of this lovely wine (I am not sure how the domaine handled the new wood quotient in the very short crop of 2010). The new vintage of la Chatenière is really lovely, as it shares the beautifully pure fruit of the Sur Gamay with a much more minerally personality, offering up a superb nose of pears, delicious apples, orange blossoms, very stylish minerality, lime zest and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, fullish, tight and racy, with an excellent core of silky fruit, great mineral drive, snappy acids and a very long, elegant and youthful finish. Fine, fine juice. 2016-2035."

90 Allen Meadows - Burghound

"A reserved nose features an attractively layered nose of pear, apricot, peach and anise-inflected aromas that introduce tautly muscular middle weight flavors that possess excellent volume and fine length on the citrusy finish. This isn't quite as complex as the Sur Gamay but it's close."