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2006 Domaine des Lambrays "Clos des Lambrays" (750ml)
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Vintage: 2006
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Clos des Lambrays
Vineyard:
Designation: Grand Cru
Appellation: Clos des Lambrays
Producer: Domaine des Lambrays
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Sub-Region: Cote de Nuits
Alcohol:
Tasting note: The 2006 Clos des Lambrays is darkly-shaded in aromatics to match its darker color vis-a-vis its two littler siblings. Ripe plum and blackberry, burley tobacco, resin, and tar in the nose are transported to a palate that shares the sappy intensity, cling, and invigoration – via tart, spicy and tactile mineral impingement – that are common to this year's Domaine des Lambrays trio. Here, hints of violet perfume and a lurking sense of gaminess add mystery. Black pepper, cardamom, berry skins, chalk, salt, and resin are featured in a tenacious finish of vibratory energy. The longer this was open to the air, the more it fascinated. I see no reason to defer the pleasures of its company now, but would expect it to be well worth following for 10-12 years. In retrospect, this seems to me the unequivocal statement of grand cru depth and complexity that I have been seeking without complete satisfaction in so many previous vintages of Clos des Lambrays. (94pts, DS, Wine Advocate)
Tasted: Dec. 2009
Score: 94
Drink: 2009-21
Tasted: Alluring and supple, yet the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove. The silky texture soon gives way to a firmly tannic structure, but the berry, spice and mineral flavors are constant from start to finish. Best from 2012 through 2025. 250 cases imported. (93 pts. BS, Wine Spectator)
Tasted: May 31, 2009
Score: 93
Drink: 2012-2025
Tasting note: Good full red. Dark cherry, licorice and brown spices on the nose, plus a whiff of leather. Suave on entry, then tightly wound and deep in the middle, offering lovely lift and perfume to the highly nuanced flavors of blueberry, black cherry, brown spices, minerals and humus. Not especially sweet in the early going, but this boasts excellent mid-palate density and finishes with noteworthy generosity of texture, pungent minerality and suave, dusty tannins. Seems riper and deeper than the young 2007. I'd wait four or five years on this one.(92pts. Steven Tanzer)
Tasted: Mar/Apr. 2009
Score: 92
Drink: N/A
Tasting note: Not surprisingly, this is more elegant, more refined, more complex and more complete though perhaps less than one might have expected. A moderately ripe red berry fruit nose with earth, stone and spice undertones introduces sappy and mouth coating flavors that possess good if not special concentration and dry extract on the moderately long and slightly warm finish. In sum, 2006 is a perfectly good vintage for the Clos des Lambrays but not a truly distinguished one.(91pts, Allen Meadows AKA The Burghound)
Tasted: Jan. 01, 2009
Score: 91
Drink: 2014+
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