2013 CLOS DES LAMBRAYS Grand Cru Domaine des Lambrays, Lea & Sandeman

CLOS DES LAMBRAYS

2013 Grand Cru Domaine des Lambrays

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Morey Saint Denis
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 14%
Vineyard Clos des Lambrays

Deep bright ruby. Nose has a complex mix of engaging fruit and spice and subtle oak. There's proper grown-up class here, mouthfilling and dense with woodland fruit and truffly humus, all framing a fresh and tangy fruit brightness and fine-tannined finish which emphasise the overall elegance. Drinking range: 2020 - L&S (Nov 2014)


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A pretty but paler colour with a charming and open nose, doing just what Thierry Brouin wanted to do – make something nice to drink. Spicy and lifted with the pepper from the stems, everything in balance, and medium plus length. Drink from now-2030. Tasted: June 2023. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: *** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Feb 2024)

The 2013 Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru, which former winemaker Thierry Brouin made, has a well-defined bouquet with dark berry fruit, brine, undergrowth and kelp aromas. The palate is rustic but engaging. Raspberry pastilles, orange rind and tertiary notes appear toward the slightly attenuated finish, not long, but you cannot deny that it is charming. I would drink this now and over the next decade. Drinking range: 2022 - 2035 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2022)

The 2013 Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru is a wine that I have tasted on several occasions although never from magnum. It has a classic earthy, slightly green bouquet with touches of "dusty attic" that I have commented upon before. The palate is firm and grippy on the entry, leafier than I was expecting with a rather tapered finish. I have scored this more highly in the past - here it just feels like a gawky teenager. Drinking range: 2021 - 2038 Rating: 91? Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (May 2019)

Domaine des Lambrays

The 'Clos' consists of 8.66 hectares of land enclosed by a wall in which there is the original milestone marking its founding in 1365, confirmed in the records of the Abbaye de Citeaux (those monks knew where to place a vineyard). The Clos owes much of its current fame to the nineteenth and twentieth century proprietors who reconstituted it after the fragmentation of ownership which followed the French revolution. Despite always having been considered a Grand Cru site, the Clos was in fact classified Premier Cru in the original 1936 appellations contrôlées.

The Rodier family which owned it from the 1930s fought to regain its Grand cru status, with eventual success only in 1981, when it became the last of the thirty-three Grands Crus of Burgundy, although by then it had passed to the Saier family. Recently under the benign ownership of the Günther Freund and his family, who gave a very free hand to régisseur Thierry Brouin, who had been employed by their predecessor Rolland Pelletier de Chambure, the quality of the wines here has pushed up again. In 2014 it was bought by the LVMH group.

It has been all rather quick change here as Jacques Devauge has taken over here after a short interregnum under Boris Champy. The legacy of Thierry Brouin can still be felt, Jacques decribing him as having been 'clairvoyant' in his approach to the domaine, which has set it up well to deal with challenges of warmer vintages. Jacques seems set to take this estate onward - 'every domaine has to challenge itself to do better', he says. 2019 marks the second year being fully organic - if all goes well they will be certified after another two.

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