Domaine des Lambrays, Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru 2010

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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni

The 2010 Clos des Lambrays is striking. Dark cherries, plums, wild berries, spices and licorice are woven together beautifully in this highly expressive, singular wine. A cool vein of minerality is a common thread as the wine continues to take shape in the glass. There is a beguiling, mysterious quality to the finish I find highly attractive. This is going to be a fascinating wine to follow over the next two decades plus. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2033. Domaine des Lambrays’s 2010s are outstanding. Yields were down approximately 30% mostly because of the irregular flowering, recounts estate manager Thierry Brouin. The Morey villages was made from entirely destemmed fruit, while the Loups and Clos des Lambrays were vinified with 100% whole bunches. The wine saw approximately 15 days of cuvaison with 5-6 pigeages a day. The wines were chaptalized a little less than one degree. Importer: Peter Weygandt, Unionville, PA; tel. (610) 486-0800

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Reviewed by: Neal Martin

The Clos des Lambrays has a wonderful, sous-bois, tea-leaf nose that marries beautifully with dark berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine but quite firm tannins, great depth, fanning out superbly on the chalky texture finish. What a great Lambrays this is.

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Reviewed by: Neal Martin

Thierry Brouin has crafted a sublime 2010 Clos des Lambrays that should age with grace and style. It has an intense bouquet of wild hedgerow, black cherries, crushed stone and dried flowers that demonstrates even greater delineation and focus than the impressive 2009. The palate has a core of fine tannins, plenty of fresh, red berry fruit and a delicate, focused, terroir-driven finish that has plenty of power and breadth, yet remains contained and never flashy. This is a beautiful Clos des Lambrays that deserves a decade in the cellar?if you can resist temptation! Tasted March 2013.

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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni

The 2010 Clos des Lambrays is striking. Dark cherries, plums, wild berries, spices and licorice are woven together beautifully in this highly expressive, singular wine. A cool vein of minerality is a common thread as the wine continues to take shape in the glass. There is a beguiling, mysterious quality to the finish I find highly attractive. This is going to be a fascinating wine to follow over the next two decades plus.

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

Bright pale-medium red. Higher-pitched but more reticent on the nose than the 2012, showing a distinctly floral aspect as well as a redder fruit quality; more delicate and pristine. Wonderfully sexy and complex if somewhat youthfully tight in the mouth, conveying an ineffable silkiness of texture rather than the sheer plushness of the '12. Less dark in its fruit character as well, offering flavors of red raspberry, cherry, brown spices and underbrush. Wonderfully tactile and delineated; this really glistens on the palate and on the very long, refined aftertaste. Here the tannins are suaver than those of the 2012. More about finesse than power, but this wine will nonetheless need time to express itself more fully. An essence of terroir and a wine of great verve. (13.4% alcohol; 3.55 pH; 3.7 g/l acidity)

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

Good bright, deep red. Very closed but pure and stylish nose hints at cherry liqueur and spices, with elements of mulch and pepper emerging with air. Dense, tactile and large-boned, but with its flesh somewhat suppressed today. Finishes saline, concentrated and thick, with substantial granular tannins. This needs at least six to eight more years in bottle to expand, and may well deserve an even higher score by 2020.

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

(100% vendange entier, vs. one-third for the village and premier cru cuvees): Good full red. Knockout nose combines raspberry liqueur, cherry, brown spices and pepper. Utterly suave and fine-grained but much less open to inspection than the premier cru. The fruit is less explosive today and distinctly darker than that of the Loups. Best today on the suave, slowly building, horizontal finish, which features substantial noble tannins, firm structure and lovely lingering perfume.