Saint Aubin

While topping up with Villa Maria sauvignon blanc at our local Majestic, I thought I would try something a bit pricier for once in a while and landed on a two year old bottle of Saint-Aubin. The product of Domaine Thomas Gérard et Filles, a domaine which is well known to Bing but which does not appear to have a website of its own, with reference 1 being a different outfit altogether.

A wine which I thought really good when we started the bottle, but with which, curiously, I became a little bored by the time we had got to the end of it. Perhaps a wine to be taken by the glass, rather than by the bottle.

Readers may care to know that Albinus, also known as Aubin, entered the monastery of Tincillac when a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529. He was known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in ransoming slaves, and for his holiness and the many miracles he is reputed to have performed both during his lifetime and after his death. Various places involving his name in his native France, including one in Calvados and another one on Jersey. And, needless to say, the one in Burgundy.

Not clear where Tincillac is or was, and Bing confuses the place with chincillas.

Reference 1: https://www.domainethomas.fr/.