I don’t know if this was given any air in advance but this was remarkably open, showing ripe dark fruits, great concentration, and a nice finish with the tannins barely showing. Not a full set of secondaries but very enjoyable and I would not be afraid to pull a cork now. A-/A
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Dark fruits on palate, intense and quite long. Fresh but a bit unbalanced as it has a hard, rather metallic finish. I gave it a two hour decant and drank half and then the other half 24 hours later with no great difference. Enjoyable but not great - am sure it will keep for a while but not convinced there will be any improvement.
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I have worked through a case of this with just one left. Yesterday was my weakest performance. Most of the tannins resolved. Seemed a bit ripe and fat and unlike a fine burgundy. Oh well.........
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Like most 2005 red Burgundies, hesitation as to whether it is ready out of the gates. But solid, well resolved and showing nicely with little decant needed. A very rich color for Lambrays, with a dense, deep almost blood-red texture adding to the usual mid-red lighter presentation. The typical brighter sweet red fruit notes open along with a deeper, almost brooding Corton attack, yielding later to a slightly spicy overtone and full palate length. Not as exciting as I would have hoped but give it another year and it may show even better. 93+.
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much browning at the edges and more mature than expected and a little bit tired, it may have been an odd bottle but I would be inclined to drink this soonish
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Going Up The Country: Suburban Bliss & Wines to Match (Craig & Nita's Place): Medium dark red color, 2mm clear edge. Opened for 90+ minutes then recorked til serving. Drank a glass over 2 hours plus. A bit tight at the outset, this needed the air to really come around. Once it got there, a good 30 to 60 minutes, then it was singing. Earth and underbrush, raspberry, red currants, crushed rock, deep and medium plus bodied, very even handed with fine tannins and classy spices. Loved it, thanks Lonny!
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Chef Don Saunder's food entices 7 city dwellers to our place in the exurbs! 8 of us plus Nita & Joe enjoyed Don's magnificent food tonight 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis. What a night!! CV,KB,SS,CS,DM,DD,LI, & DS. With plenty of air this wine was superb tonight! Lonny's sublime btl alongside my '05 Roumier Les Cras. This was a little further along than my 05 Roumier Les Cras. A little more tertiary. I loved its grace, signature minerality, cherry notes, spice and underbrush. A beautiful Burg with still plenty of upside from a producer that was relatively undervalued till the 05 vintage forward. Prices caught up with what is in our glasses after the sale. Delighted to have this in the same flight as my 05 Roumier Les Cras! Thanks Lonny!
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There is pretty cherry fruit here with a finely-grained texture and nice complexity on the finish but I think it lacks Grand Cru weight and texture. The bottle seemed sound but it just didn't deliver the goods based on my expectations. Will defer to another bottle at some point down the road. 90?
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I have been working my way through 12 bottles over the years and now have just two left. This wine has kept improving and is now superb. I doubt it sees any more improvement but in no danger of heading downhill.
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Opaque, dark ruby almost to rim. Vigorous aromas of sandalwood, rose, cedar, cigar box, and plum liqueur with a whiff of smoke transitioning to sweet raspberry, cigar, licorice and red cherry. Silky, smooth palate embellished with well-integrated tannins and a plum, light cherry and tobacco-inflected palate. With time, the palate trended more to tobacco and cherry liqueur. So satisfying. Finishes slightly bittersweet but pairs beautifully with food. The very seductive nose continued to improve over two hours. Excellent with soft, less pungent cheese and fatty meats.
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A stunning wine that requires some patience. Out of the bottle, the nose is a bit closed. With air, sweet dark/blue berry syrup, savory herbs, forest floor, spices start building towards a crescendo that hit hard out of the glass at its peak.
The palate is rich, dense and concentrated with juicy ripe fruits and stimulating spices. Muscular tannins and a rustic earthiness create extra dimension.
Elegant yet powerful wine that isn't very Burgundian, but hits a lot of what I love about drinking red wine. It feels grand on the palate, but gentle on the soul.
Drank with a variety of meats ranging from proscuitto, duck breast and home made burgers. Held up great against all of them. Drank over two days and didn't show signs of slowing down - this likely has many more years ahead of it.
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Quel nez absolument merveilleux !!! De la grande classe, indéniablement un Grand Cru, profond, c'est riche, délicat, sur la pivoine, légère touche de lavande avec en arrière plan un peu de ce coté animal mais très subtil. En bouche c'est grandiose, de la finesse, des petits fruits rouges tout en finesse. C'est aérien mais tellement savoureux. Grand Pinot Noir dans son sweet spot en ce moment. Moment Magique, Clos des Lambrays c'est grand !!!
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Tasted over 2 hrs, from 375mL, oddly had 2 capsules -nearly opaque dark red purple -brooding ripe plum cassis -med acidity, med weight quite concentrated brooding ripe dark fruit with some earthiness though not much of the Lambrays stem/spice, med tannins excellent length -well-balanced ripe dark fruited and still too young to be fully open even in this format
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Perfect cork, medium ruby, spicy nose. Drinking really well at sweet sixteen. In a great spot. Three more bottles and I will drink over the next two years.
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I owe thanks to those who posted notes indicating this wine is drinking well now - I opened one, and it certainly is! This wine had an entrancing nose - with wonderful fruit and autumnal notes. The palate was silky and had sneaky power. A wonderful combination of elements at the moment. And for me, this showing was my own personal best experience with any Clos des Lambrays. No hurry to drink though...these should age gracefully for at least another 7+ years.
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Confrerie dinner visit to Lambray pre-Covid was outstanding. A ranking Confrerie stalwart and myself managed to cajole Thierry into opening a cellar mag of 1947 Lambray-a Godlike bottle! Since then Lambray star status in mine eyes. The very knowing contributors of this trio of Lambray bottles - swore this impenetrable 2005 vintage bottling ready to roll? They have never steered me wrong-never! Opened 7 hours before serving and at that time a cranberry festival in the mouth-approachable -giddyup! At dinner service bright red with cranberry field nose and long, rich palate of tart Tulare cherries –blessed with a brush of silky leather. Will be a rock star bottle in 15-20 years...Momma-Mia folks!
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Fantastic nose. Lot of cherries and other red berries. Animal and leather notes. Silky soft tannins. Very well balanced. Must be peaking right now. Wow.
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Have not visited this for a couple of years. This wine has really opened up. Medium ruby with nose of red fruits. Mouthcoating fruit, elegant with a long finish. Near its peak IMHO.
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remember buying this bottling when in Paris with friends for my 50th bday trip... first vacation to continental Europe in my entire life!... wine story across the street sold it to my buddy, we drank it then, I bought more when we came home and now it is SINGING... great red fruit drive on a trail of acidity and brightness... a winner ten years later (remember not really liking it in 2012 in Paris... probably shut then... this feels like it can go another 10-15 years
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A Super Sunday (Atlanta): See MCs note below. Perhaps we needed to decant longer. Blind this showed wrapped up tight tight tight. Killer nose is it's strength right now. Clean youthful, vibrant fruit that is cloaked by structure. Palate is steely right now. 2005s may outlive us all. See you in 2030 or so...
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Decanted 3 hours. This was giving nothing out of the bottle, and with 3 hours there was a mix of dark red and blue fruits on the nose, but the palate was less open and showing a lot of acid on the finish. Tannins not really as present, more acid. Just too soon, but this seems to have good balance and should evolve into a very enjoyable and balanced Burgundy. I would say 2-3 more years before I would try another. A-
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I was probably too generous with my scoring last time. But in the company of Clos des tart, CDLR and CSD tonight. This came across as really single dimensional and just really unappealing with neither the nose or the complexity on the palate.
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GAUDISSABOIS JOHAN wrote : great wine. Up to now one of the best 2005's I have enjoyed so far. Beginning to open up completely. Not lightweight as is sometimes the trouble with this famous CLOS (the 2002 was disappointing).
A first greeting with high-toned, crunchy red berries enveloped in a tannic overlay that begged for more time. After an hour in the decanter, the wine moved South to its dark corps, holding back the brighter red fruit and emphasizing instead, a dark red/black center of plum, a hint of cassis, elegant-styled sous bois, black cherry, and just a mild amount of the killer Lambrays trademark elegant sweet medium red, perfumed fruit. Mellifluous and just starting to stick its head above water. This will continue to age nicely and certainly needs 30-60 minutes of decanted air to drink now.
A Birthday Celebration (Taste 222 - Chicago IL): This will be a great wine, just not quite there right now. Rich and powerful red and black cherry with floral and spice notes in the near background. Engaging to start, but clearly firm, backward and tannic on the long finish. Nothing fun here right now, but great potential (93+ points) 2025 forward, or perhaps even from 2030.
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Not surprising the 2005 Clos des Lambrays took several hours in a decanter to show any personality, eventually emerging with notes of cola, clove, and baked cherry. Try again in five years.
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Brought this to my M8's 60 year birthday surprise dinner. No real formal notes. A really good Lambrays, some tertiary notes showing, meat, underbrush, cigar, spice box, tea leaf's, touch of mushroom with very good depth and length. Ripe red berries, cherries, some darker underlying fruits as well. Very long and comin along great. Glad to have a few more bottles tucked away for further enjoyment in a few years. (93 - 95+)
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Un 2005 élégant, rond, pas trop extrait et civilisé, tanins fins, encore jeune et sans doute promis à une progression en longueur et profondeur. 92 pts
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Recently I have grown on Domaine des Lambrays wines (previously I only liked their Puligny Montrachet) as I find their light-footed and finesse driven style much more enjoyable than concentrated big-boned wines. Tasted blind - Burgundian nose of charming dark berries, wild herbs, minerals and low pitched wood spices. Lovely purity with Grand cru weight but very gentle structure (good 1er Cru?). Starting to develop which reminds me of 2006. Moret St Denis 1er cru? 2006? (91/100)
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Opened 5 hours before drinking. Was still tight and muted when first tasted. Nose was also muted. But after another 3 hours with food started to open up more. Slight minerality with overall balance of a grand cru. Keep for at least 5-10 more years!
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Pnp, deep red in color. Hawthorn aroma Mixed with other dark fruits and hint of oak spice. On palate, sweet fruits, ample acidity is found with more oak spice which quickly gives way to the long lingering aftertaste of hawthorn, tannin is still present and provide the necessary structure. Lovely wine and shall continue to cellar well.
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Chez SC: powerful wine, dark, quite rustic, some friends thought that this is Syrah wine from the Rhône, not on the same level as the Clos de Tart 2004 which we had some minutes earlier, not on the same level as the one drunk some weeks ago.
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Bloody, red burgundy... I can taste the iron, the steel and red hemoglobin, and it reminds me of the durm and strang of hand to hand combat, the clang of broadsword against plate mail, the desperate screams of victors and victims alike. This is a wine at war with itself. Is it a deep, dark secret of the soul, whispered in darkness as the storm rages and survival is unassured? Is it a feral howl, a bellowing chant of violence and aggression? It has these elements and more.
There is something of the chaotic about this Lambrays, red Corton-like, unknit, a dancing in the dark with demons wildness. I found it impossible to predict where it was going, what point it was trying to make, where we would all end up at the end of the night. It is roadhouse wine, for sure, complex, unresolved, perhaps not quite yet ready for the light of day.
Out of the bottle, opened an hour, we hit blood-iron and steel, dark rose scents, earth, a hint of birch stem, some green leafiness. Gradually, things happened in the glass, and were still happening by the time we poured the last sips down our thirsty gullets. She got better, less strident, less anxious to make herself known and more content that we were on her side and would not abandon her. But she never quite got to where I wanted her to be.
Let’s revisit in another 5 years. It is a risky tactic. Some of the flavors range to plumminess, coca-cola, fig-infused balsamic... umami for sure... tannin, yes, but acidity, not so much. Where will it all lead, we ponder... to a triumphant resolve in complex precision (or is it precise complexity?)? Or to a big fat sloppy mess of component parts strewn across the battlefield like limbs and offal... Time, we know for sure, will tell.
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Gifted and opened by a friend during the meal, despite of a 2 hour decant, still very primary and young, red cherry fruit, quite massive, plenty of earthy notes, stony. Very interesting and good, but way too young.
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Like other recent notes, consumed much too young, but I wanted to sample this for the first time, and the (filtered) last glass that had sat in the bottle for a few hours was very very delicious - black fruited supple and developed - whereas earlier glasses had the bit of a hard edge and restraint I expected from consuming too early. Will be good.
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From magnum, ultra dark color, rich fruit, and reasonably accessible with silky tannins. This is still a baby, but it's enjoyable now. I'd imagine that 750's would be even better. This mag in 15-20 years will probably leave people speechless. Today, it was just a fun way to check in on the '05 vintage.
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Color is med ruby. Red fruits, strawberry nose and hint of spice. Medium concentration on palate, sweet friuts and smooth tannin yield a very refined approach. Restrained use of oak that maintained the fruit freshness, lovely acidity with hawthorn finish.
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Simply put, the best wine I tasted on a trip to Burgundy out of 100+ wines of varying maturity. I think popping this open now is fine as it is fully matured yet perhaps not quite at its peak. Spices and remarkably fresh fruit on the nose, but silky smooth, perfectly balanced and a long memorable finish.
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Tremendous potential here, but still way too young, even from this half bottle. The grand cru depth shows through even on the nose, which is full of cloves, red berry fruit, a little balsa wood, and iron, all beautifully delineated. Firm and structured on the palate, but the tannins are fine, the fruit is perfectly ripe, and the texture feels like velvet (that will one day turn to silk). Give this another 10 years or more before opening, and it'll be just dynamite.
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Delicious from nose to finish this twelve year old is beginning to play in the majors and have a long career. Decanted for two hours and drank with a 1995 Chateau Marguax over the next two hours. Aromatically excellent -violets, sweetly scented petunias and the spicy clove floral scent of Bougainvillea carnation. The fruit - black cherry, black raspberry and blackberry, is enveloped by a spiced, earthy, elegant texture. The rich and concentrated mouth feel is layered with beautiful finesse, and balanced from tongue to mouth swirl to a glory finish. Great now and over the next fifteen years.
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tycker det här vinet är helt fantastiskt bra! moget och härligt och nästan svårt att skilja på om det är en riktigt bra barbaresco eller en topp Bourgogne, fantastiskt god. fortfarande mycket frukt och det finns taniner kvar samtidigt som det har mognat och mjuknat på ett bra sätt.
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Dinner and a Great Mix of Wines at Lonny's (Lonny's Place, Mpls): Dark red color. Not sure if this got any air. Drank 1 glass over an hour. This was a terrific young Lambrays. Very good intensity. spiced, dark berry fruit, earthy, funk, very concentrated and layered and so nicely balanced. Needs 3 to 5 years to really shine, but this just kept getting better in glass. 92+ to 93pts.
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Drinking better than I would have expected for an 05. That said, this really should not be touched until at least 2020 plus 1 = 2021:). Even then, the more ideal scenario is likely around 2025. Having said that, this was really fun to try, showed terrific balance, elegance and finesse. Just no forest floor or shrooms yet. Mostly the fruit at this point and some solid minerality. Its hard to believe but great Burgundy like this, with some pedigree, really needs a solid 20 years to be a potential epiphany drink. Problem is my buddy isn't much younger than I and I'm 61 so you're always eager to drink these before you loose your faculties :). I really appreciate Lonny popping this! It is truly a great wine in the making and dam good today.
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Infanticide. Just simply an error to drink this wine at the present time. Does it have good fruit?-- yes. Acid is well balanced, mid palate developed and the tannin is silky. Yet, I know there is so much more coming if I were to wait. Alas, my last bottle is gone........
Upside to 94/95 for those who have some ...
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Ranjan's 113th Birthday Dinner (Members' Lounge, Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong): (From 6.0L decanted for an hour or threabouts). Transparent robust lambs' blood colour. Nose is highly perfumed but with more rose petals than the strawberries or damp woodland I might have expected. Palate is beautifully poised, harmonious and rounded.....quite sweet woodland wild strawberries and medium Asian spice box that grows stronger over time. Very elegant and poised. Good and reverberant length. Gosh....still very young but very enjoyable and approachable. I would love to re-visit this in 10 years' time.
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BDay Wine Dinner (Annex Fresno): 93-94+ This was the WOTN for me. Decanted for 1-2 hrs. Still very primary and needs time to develop. Nose of bright red cherry and gravel. Palate matched with great acidity and structure for the long haul. Excited to see how this one develops.
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Rating will be higher in time. I am big fan of Clos des Lambrays and have witnessed their usually bright, youthful exuberance give way to the tunnel of closing down, followed by emergence with greater corps and more complex,darker fruit than the initial brighter cherry and slight cassis overtones.
Decanted for 1+ hours and drunk for another 1-2 hours. There is plenty of dark fruit hiding here now, along with some mild wild brambly tastes and the 2005 is undoubtedly still emerging from the tunnel--not there yet. The absence of tannin after decanting suggests that the always-exuberant C des L will unfold over the next few years. I would let it sit for another few years.
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Dry Riesling and Burgundy night (Olea, New Haven): I expected this to be painfully young and inscrutable at this stage. It's certainly incredibly youthful, but with a few hours in the decanter this opened out into an absolutely stunning Burgundy that has all the depth, power, and finesse I could ask for from a Grand Cru. The aromatics are stunning - bright high toned floral and stemmy notes, more savoury earthy, tree bark, and stony notes, and beneath is a core of incredibly fresh, juicy red and dark fruit that's perfectly ripe without ever feeling too rich or intense. There's serious depth and power on the palate but also remarkable finesse, and the finish is impressively long even though the tannic spine makes itself felt on the back end. Stunning wine, though I expect this to only get better with time.
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Cherry, cherry, and more cherry, and then some oxidized cherry. This was tasted from a half bottle. The palate was, you guessed it, cherry, with serious tart acidity. Sure, it was a decent Burgundy and offered qualities you might expect from a year as fantastic as 2005, but at the Bourgogne level. Perhaps it just needs 10 more years? I don't care to find out.
For the record, this was the last straw and I plan to sell my Red Burgundy collection. Red Burgundies are so expensive, and they all smell and taste pretty much the same to me. Yup, you guessed it, like cherry. While they make pleasant drinking for millionaires. I can't bring myself to open a $300 bottle of sour cherry cooler any more. I figure these "precious gems" deserve a better home in a more discerning collector's house.
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From 375: Perhaps a little more evolved than examples from larger formats. This wine is entering (at least from small format) it's drinking window. Beautiful refined pinot nose, and impeccably balanced on the palate.Fine tannins and good acidity provide focus. Lingering fruit filled finish. In a word, elegant. Long life ahead.
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Vertical blind tasting of 02-05, my third place wine. Double decanted and then tasted 3 hours later. Very surprising result to say the least. This had a rather closed, muted nose. There are some stems on the nose that show a little green, you could easily think this was the 04 (if not for the overt greenie-meanies showing on the 04.) The palate was very dry and astringent, with a metallic taste that was hard to pin down. I think the stems are dominating this wine and not letting the beautiful 05 vintage shine through, I hope that time cures this, but tonight it was not very impressive.
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Highly structured and slightly reductive with dark sweet cherries and slightly musky. A little Nz pinot like in the fruit department and Very approachable.
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way to young is my first impression, it takes time for this wine to open up as its really shy from the beginning, after a while you get a shy wild raspberry nose, with forest fruits and wet forrest feeling on the nose, also some minerals.
on the mouth we got wild raspberries, forest floor, mineral, a smooth feeling, really elegant and beautiful. maybe a bit thin?
I really like this wine, its right up my alley.
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Drank a 3.0L bottle at a big birthday celebration at a 3-star restaurant (my bottle). Absolutely superb balance of fruit, acidity and tannins. An excellent example.
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This wine really surprised me. I had not had it since release, and this showing was far more open and soft than I was expecting. A delicate, pretty wine, with soft red fruit. I am honestly a bit nervous at how quickly this is aging given the vintage, cru, etc.
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HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago, IL): I hadn't tried this in a while, and this was certainly interesting. Tasted it blind and based on the weight and energy on the palate I thought it was a Foillard Cru Beaujolai. It had crunchy red fruits, nice undertones of earth, and dried leaves. Loved the acidity on the palate and the smoothness of the fruit and floral composition.
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HDH Bordeaux Auction; 10/31/2014-11/1/2014 (Chicago, IL): So this has a very pale colour that really isn't representative of its age. Neither is its red fruited nose, which would evoke '07 more than '05. So lithe and pretty, and somehow, very accessible. Very bizarre, in the context of the vintage. Nonetheless, very, very pretty, as all Lambrays wines are.
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Drank at the Cape with the family. Medium red ruby color, nose of black fruit, spice and earth. Medium bodied, fairly sweet black cherries and blackberries very apparent up front, followed by lots of spice & earthiness. Wonderfully complex dense wine with great length. This wine is in a sweet spot right now
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PopnPour, from 375 mL, tasted over 3 hrs -ruby with dark core, no bricking -moderately aromatic, regal, elegant, dark fruits -med acidity, classic power without weight, somewhat reticent dark red and black fruit, a little bit of Lambrays spice and barest hint of oak, med- tannins, great length -still a little young but oh what harmony, beautiful with stately elegance, a perfect example for the nature of the vintage
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Nez de sous-bois, de fruit rouge. Bouche vigoureuse mais de classe, très tannique mais avec du fond, de la fraicheur, il deviendra très beau dans 5-10 ans. 92+ pts
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Beautiful wine. Opened three hours before dinner. Lovely feminine nose of dark berries with a bit of spice. Very powerful, will be great to revisit in another 5 years +
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Slightly lighter/redder fruit profile than some of the other better vintages served before. Still very structured but so effortlessly elegant and balanced underneath.
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After an hour breathing, nice tannin structure, aroma, and palate. This wine has raspberry and blackberry with overtones of tar and tobacco. Nice balance and long finish. The nose is a bit light.
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DRC Tasting Group (Cafe Veloce): Tasted blind. A bit of heat and stewed tomatoes on the nose. However, quite different on the body. Lighter and a bit austere, though with some red fruit and fine, but drying tannins. Finishes with medium length.
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Acker Merrall BYO (Domaine Storage - Chicago IL): Tasting. From magnum. Perfumed nose, charming spice, with plenty of black fruit aromas. Lots of power and black cherry and blackberry on palate, slightly shut down, but the power and density show this wine's obvious fundamental potential.
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Out of 375ml, popped and poured. Nose is a little shy and unexpressive, palate is a little flat as well. Then I remembered that I have a cold, and that I am a complete idiot.
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Consistent with prior notes, though if i were to quibble this seemed to have a touch less balance. Most bottles I have had, while clearly stuffed with gorgeous ripe fruit, also had a very well delineated structure, with the acidity and tannins giving the wine great definition in the mouth. This bottle (out of 375) seemed to have less acidity and as a result was a touch flabby (not in an absolute sense, but in a relative sense as compared to prior bottles). but still very enjoyable nonetheless - an incredibly complex array of aromas and tastes in this wine...
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Brought by Duncan Hunter to Bibendum's 2005 BYO Burgundy tasting, which produced a flight of nine wines, and was this year's warm-up before their annual BYO dinner at Le Cafe Anglais. This will be excellent, but needs another 5 years. Diffuse colour (like the '96 at dinner), very good fruit, warm, fine tannins, well-balanced, an enjoyable drink now, no need to spit. Runner-up to Maume's Mazis as WOTF. Score very likely to go up with a few more years in the cellar.
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Clos des Lambrays Vertical (Momofuku Ma Peche): This will be a legend one day. The main thing that strikes you about it is that it's just simply packed with absolutely everything. Loads of really ripe fruit and loads of tannin and loads of stony earth somehow civilized into a fairly streamlined form. When I drank it on release I noted that the needle of the fruit ripeness was just about to teeter in the red zone and it's still remarkable how it can live in that space without tipping over. Fortunately just when the fruit might strike you as too intense the structure reigns in the sweetness. It's not drying the wine out or closing it down just yet, but it's fierce for sure.
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Light ruby color. bright fruit - sweet cherry / tart cherry / touch of spiciness on nose & palate. Medium+ body and very long finish. 91++ Excellent wine.
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La Paulée de New York Grand Tasting (Metropolitan Pavilion - New York NY): Tasting, brief note. I don't think I've tried this since shortly around release. Dark and intense black fruit, almost brooding, with lots of sweet spice. Similar flavor profile with silky but powerful tannins, lots of acidity and minerality. Certainly some pleasure right now, but much better for the long haul.
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Popped and poured. Dark ruby. Deep nose of t and a, blue fruits and spicy oak. Still completely primary and has yet to absorb the oak. Distinct minerality in the mouth, well structured, but not lean. Good balance between acidity and tannins. Long finish. Long life ahead.
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Fantastic burg. Wow, let it warm and breath for a while. Nose is sweet berry, smoke, and barn yard. Very smooth on the palate. Dark color, loaded with red berry and cassis. Oak presence is evident. Very well integrated and forresty if you will. Almost pine like with fresh acidity and medium body.
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La Paulee Luncheon; 11/19/2009-11/23/2009 (Osvaldos): Undecanted, this is absolutely too young! Sappy dense dark cherry fruits with very tough but firm structure. Has acidity but the tannins are incredible. Has the structure to hold and age for a long time. 10 years at least before it reveals itself. 84-89 pts
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Clos de tarts and Vintage Madeira Tasting at John V.'s: This was also served blind. A very pretty wine that more open than most 05's but still in need of much time. Light ruby in color. The nose is quite pretty with violets, meaty funk and cherries. Soft and already complex on the palate with plenty of cherries. Slight anise on the finish and a bit of powdered cherry drink mix. Lovely wine. I can't help thinking that this wine, even with its recent lower pricing, is no longer a value though. It is a good wine and worth owning a couple, but as the price has entered plus $100 it is no longer the last grand Cru value.
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Popped and poured. Bright red ruby with a tinge of blue. Gorgeous nose of sour cherry, spice, and earth, with a hint of tar - probably would have guessed 04 barolo blind. in the mouth great acidity and tannic structure but lots of fruit to back it up. get lots of tobacco on the paate as well. beautiful wine. i wonder if it will close down???
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Burgundy visit, Côte de Nuits, May 2009; 5/11/2009-5/13/2009 (Burgundy, France): Tasted at domaine -- Adored by Thierry (winemaker), I was slightly less enamored but this is still lovely stuff. Loads of licorice, smoked meats, salami, and crushed pepper. Note that my descriptors are more spice and smoke leaning, I didn't get quite as much fruit as I would have wanted. Still an excellent pinot tho.
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Perfect balance on the nose of perfectly ripe fruit. Very fine tannins with amazingly penetrating fruit continuing through a really long finish. Class of the 05s tasted tonight.
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Big upside on this wine - attractive nose of fruit, herbs and spice. Bold on the palate although a bit tight. As the wine was exposed to air it closed down quite a bit but retained balance. Enjoyable now but great upside in the future. Lots of tannins that need to melt away at this point.
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On the ripeness scale, the needle here is teetering into the red zone, but it's amazing how well the wine manages to handle it -- it doesn't result in any fatness or heavyweight glycerine, just a dark, deep complexion to the fruit while the proportions of the wine are as svelte and graceful as anything I've tasted from this vintage. The flavor profile is deep blueberry, almost inky in its saturation, but the silky, finely grained tannins add just enough friction to the texture to steer the wine away from syrupy territory, but with a light enough touch that it still manages to glide across the palate effortlessly and weightlessly. Fantastic.
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The best bottle of Clos des Lambrays I've ever had, ever. Terrific wine, loaded with potential for improvement. Typically 2005 in color, dark, concentrated. Aromatically, excellent expression and intensity, framboise-y and old-viney but in a complex and intriguing way. The impressive aromatics do not completely follow through on the palate, yet. The wine is obviously very concentrated, quite heavy and thick across the mid-palate with some fairly clenching late tannins before the wine had been decanted. Decanted, evaluated and enjoyed over 10 hours. Definitely has potential to improve and prosper. Likely at 25+ year wine in a good cellar. I'm very happy I stocked up. The wine is not yet closed down completely and is worth a look if you are interested.
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Second time I've drunk this in the last month. Brief note: while clearly a baby, this shows terrific balance and (dare I say it) breed. Expansive black / red fruits and suave texture. Deftly balanced. Very impressive.
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David Bowler Fall 2007 Portfolio Tasting (NYC): Medium ruby color. Miniscule pour. Somewhat closed on the nose, with elements of red and black cherries and earthiness. Fine structure on the palate with black and red fruits and youthful tannins. This needs time.
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3/12/2024 - MC wrote:
I don’t know if this was given any air in advance but this was remarkably open, showing ripe dark fruits, great concentration, and a nice finish with the tannins barely showing. Not a full set of secondaries but very enjoyable and I would not be afraid to pull a cork now. A-/A
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12/10/2023 - TheGreenFrog Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark fruits on palate, intense and quite long. Fresh but a bit unbalanced as it has a hard, rather metallic finish. I gave it a two hour decant and drank half and then the other half 24 hours later with no great difference. Enjoyable but not great - am sure it will keep for a while but not convinced there will be any improvement.
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11/24/2023 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 92 Points
I have worked through a case of this with just one left. Yesterday was my weakest performance. Most of the tannins resolved. Seemed a bit ripe and fat and unlike a fine burgundy. Oh well.........
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11/14/2023 - Oli_Vilmo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Elegant but not structured enough, very Lambrays
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10/18/2023 - Sotto325 wrote: 93 Points
Like most 2005 red Burgundies, hesitation as to whether it is ready out of the gates. But solid, well resolved and showing nicely with little decant needed. A very rich color for Lambrays, with a dense, deep almost blood-red texture adding to the usual mid-red lighter presentation. The typical brighter sweet red fruit notes open along with a deeper, almost brooding Corton attack, yielding later to a slightly spicy overtone and full palate length. Not as exciting as I would have hoped but give it another year and it may show even better. 93+.
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6/22/2023 - hargy Likes this wine: 91 Points
much browning at the edges and more mature than expected and a little bit tired, it may have been an odd bottle but I would be inclined to drink this soonish
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2/9/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Going Up The Country: Suburban Bliss & Wines to Match (Craig & Nita's Place): Medium dark red color, 2mm clear edge. Opened for 90+ minutes then recorked til serving. Drank a glass over 2 hours plus. A bit tight at the outset, this needed the air to really come around. Once it got there, a good 30 to 60 minutes, then it was singing. Earth and underbrush, raspberry, red currants, crushed rock, deep and medium plus bodied, very even handed with fine tannins and classy spices. Loved it, thanks Lonny!
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2/9/2023 - chablis28 wrote: 95 Points
Chef Don Saunder's food entices 7 city dwellers to our place in the exurbs! 8 of us plus Nita & Joe enjoyed Don's magnificent food tonight 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis. What a night!! CV,KB,SS,CS,DM,DD,LI, & DS. With plenty of air this wine was superb tonight! Lonny's sublime btl alongside my '05 Roumier Les Cras. This was a little further along than my 05 Roumier Les Cras. A little more tertiary. I loved its grace, signature minerality, cherry notes, spice and underbrush. A beautiful Burg with still plenty of upside from a producer that was relatively undervalued till the 05 vintage forward. Prices caught up with what is in our glasses after the sale. Delighted to have this in the same flight as my 05 Roumier Les Cras! Thanks Lonny!
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11/22/2022 - dream wrote: 90 Points
There is pretty cherry fruit here with a finely-grained texture and nice complexity on the finish but I think it lacks Grand Cru weight and texture. The bottle seemed sound but it just didn't deliver the goods based on my expectations. Will defer to another bottle at some point down the road. 90?
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10/20/2022 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
A little leaner and leathery, and very long on the palate. Incredibly long.
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9/17/2022 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 97 Points
I have been working my way through 12 bottles over the years and now have just two left. This wine has kept improving and is now superb. I doubt it sees any more improvement but in no danger of heading downhill.
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8/14/2022 - Musinus wrote: 94 Points
Opaque, dark ruby almost to rim. Vigorous aromas of sandalwood, rose, cedar, cigar box, and plum liqueur with a whiff of smoke transitioning to sweet raspberry, cigar, licorice and red cherry. Silky, smooth palate embellished with well-integrated tannins and a plum, light cherry and tobacco-inflected palate. With time, the palate trended more to tobacco and cherry liqueur. So satisfying. Finishes slightly bittersweet but pairs beautifully with food. The very seductive nose continued to improve over two hours. Excellent with soft, less pungent cheese and fatty meats.
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8/5/2022 - SH Wu Likes this wine: 97 Points
A stunning wine that requires some patience. Out of the bottle, the nose is a bit closed. With air, sweet dark/blue berry syrup, savory herbs, forest floor, spices start building towards a crescendo that hit hard out of the glass at its peak.
The palate is rich, dense and concentrated with juicy ripe fruits and stimulating spices. Muscular tannins and a rustic earthiness create extra dimension.
Elegant yet powerful wine that isn't very Burgundian, but hits a lot of what I love about drinking red wine. It feels grand on the palate, but gentle on the soul.
Drank with a variety of meats ranging from proscuitto, duck breast and home made burgers. Held up great against all of them. Drank over two days and didn't show signs of slowing down - this likely has many more years ahead of it.
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6/21/2022 - kevinpatrick Likes this wine:
Burgundies and Barolos (89 & 10 DRC, Clos Vougeot, Lambrays, and more) at Fig Tree (Charlotte, NC): 4 hour double decant. More settled on the nose than the Gevrey-Chambertin – balanced and ready to drink. Soft on the palate delivering rich red fruits and plums with elegant earthy notes. A fantastic expression of this well-regarded vintage. Delicious wine.
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6/15/2022 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 97 Points
Quel nez absolument merveilleux !!!
De la grande classe, indéniablement un Grand Cru, profond, c'est riche, délicat, sur la pivoine, légère touche de lavande avec en arrière plan un peu de ce coté animal mais très subtil. En bouche c'est grandiose, de la finesse, des petits fruits rouges tout en finesse. C'est aérien mais tellement savoureux. Grand Pinot Noir dans son sweet spot en ce moment. Moment Magique, Clos des Lambrays c'est grand !!!
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3/13/2022 - Cote d'Or wrote:
Tasted over 2 hrs, from 375mL, oddly had 2 capsules
-nearly opaque dark red purple
-brooding ripe plum cassis
-med acidity, med weight quite concentrated brooding ripe dark fruit with some earthiness though not much of the Lambrays stem/spice, med tannins excellent length
-well-balanced ripe dark fruited and still too young to be fully open even in this format
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1/1/2022 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 94 Points
Perfect cork, medium ruby, spicy nose. Drinking really well at sweet sixteen. In a great spot. Three more bottles and I will drink over the next two years.
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11/22/2021 - Blair Curtis wrote: 95 Points
I owe thanks to those who posted notes indicating this wine is drinking well now - I opened one, and it certainly is! This wine had an entrancing nose - with wonderful fruit and autumnal notes. The palate was silky and had sneaky power. A wonderful combination of elements at the moment. And for me, this showing was my own personal best experience with any Clos des Lambrays. No hurry to drink though...these should age gracefully for at least another 7+ years.
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11/6/2021 - ricardito Likes this wine: 96 Points
Confrerie dinner visit to Lambray pre-Covid was outstanding. A ranking Confrerie stalwart and myself managed to cajole Thierry into opening a cellar mag of 1947 Lambray-a Godlike bottle! Since then Lambray star status in mine eyes. The very knowing contributors of this trio of Lambray bottles - swore this impenetrable 2005 vintage bottling ready to roll? They have never steered me wrong-never! Opened 7 hours before serving and at that time a cranberry festival in the mouth-approachable -giddyup! At dinner service bright red with cranberry field nose and long, rich palate of tart Tulare cherries –blessed with a brush of silky leather. Will be a rock star bottle in 15-20 years...Momma-Mia folks!
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5/29/2021 - cch1966 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fantastic nose. Lot of cherries and other red berries. Animal and leather notes. Silky soft tannins. Very well balanced. Must be peaking right now. Wow.
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4/18/2021 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 94 Points
Have not visited this for a couple of years. This wine has really opened up. Medium ruby with nose of red fruits. Mouthcoating fruit, elegant with a long finish. Near its peak IMHO.
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4/5/2021 - WoodieBayArea wrote: 93 Points
remember buying this bottling when in Paris with friends for my 50th bday trip... first vacation to continental Europe in my entire life!... wine story across the street sold it to my buddy, we drank it then, I bought more when we came home and now it is SINGING... great red fruit drive on a trail of acidity and brightness... a winner ten years later (remember not really liking it in 2012 in Paris... probably shut then... this feels like it can go another 10-15 years
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3/22/2021 - decaturwinedude wrote: 91 Points
A Super Sunday (Atlanta): See MCs note below. Perhaps we needed to decant longer. Blind this showed wrapped up tight tight tight. Killer nose is it's strength right now. Clean youthful, vibrant fruit that is cloaked by structure. Palate is steely right now. 2005s may outlive us all. See you in 2030 or so...
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2/12/2021 - Burgnick wrote: flawed
Heat damaged
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1/25/2021 - MC wrote:
Decanted 3 hours. This was giving nothing out of the bottle, and with 3 hours there was a mix of dark red and blue fruits on the nose, but the palate was less open and showing a lot of acid on the finish. Tannins not really as present, more acid. Just too soon, but this seems to have good balance and should evolve into a very enjoyable and balanced Burgundy. I would say 2-3 more years before I would try another. A-
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1/16/2021 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
Club Blind Tasting (Repulse Bay): 03666. Breathed for five hours. Dark ruby hue, compact and structured. 93-94
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1/2/2021 - bill00 wrote: 92 Points
Relatively open-knit with nice pure dark cherry fruit. Solid.
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11/19/2020 - LB88 wrote: 91 Points
I was probably too generous with my scoring last time. But in the company of Clos des tart, CDLR and CSD tonight. This came across as really single dimensional and just really unappealing with neither the nose or the complexity on the palate.
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11/16/2020 - robferguson1 wrote: 92 Points
My palate is tainted but this seemed just heavy stuff
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11/16/2020 - robferguson1 wrote: 92 Points
Very tannic but my palate is tainted
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5/24/2020 - Plabella Likes this wine: 97 Points
What can you say when you drank the last bottle? This was a delicious wine with long lasting taste, great fruit and great balance.
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4/25/2020 - Gaudissabois Johan wrote: 94 Points
GAUDISSABOIS JOHAN wrote : great wine. Up to now one of the best 2005's I have enjoyed so far. Beginning to open up completely. Not lightweight as is sometimes the trouble with this famous CLOS (the 2002 was disappointing).
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2/20/2020 - Sotto325 wrote: 94 Points
A first greeting with high-toned, crunchy red berries enveloped in a tannic overlay that begged for more time. After an hour in the decanter, the wine moved South to its dark corps, holding back the brighter red fruit and emphasizing instead, a dark red/black center of plum, a hint of cassis, elegant-styled sous bois, black cherry, and just a mild amount of the killer Lambrays trademark elegant sweet medium red, perfumed fruit. Mellifluous and just starting to stick its head above water. This will continue to age nicely and certainly needs 30-60 minutes of decanted air to drink now.
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12/6/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote:
A Birthday Celebration (Taste 222 - Chicago IL): This will be a great wine, just not quite there right now. Rich and powerful red and black cherry with floral and spice notes in the near background. Engaging to start, but clearly firm, backward and tannic on the long finish. Nothing fun here right now, but great potential (93+ points) 2025 forward, or perhaps even from 2030.
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9/21/2019 - rlove wrote:
Not surprising the 2005 Clos des Lambrays took several hours in a decanter to show any personality, eventually emerging with notes of cola, clove, and baked cherry. Try again in five years.
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9/9/2019 - EdwardsCellar Likes this wine: 92 Points
more robust and concentrated fruits than expected. almost like a cote de rhone. deep red cheery pits. earth and minerals. might be a little young.
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6/18/2019 - Ramberg wrote: 94 Points
Brought this to my M8's 60 year birthday surprise dinner.
No real formal notes.
A really good Lambrays, some tertiary notes showing, meat, underbrush, cigar, spice box, tea leaf's, touch of mushroom with very good depth and length.
Ripe red berries, cherries, some darker underlying fruits as well.
Very long and comin along great.
Glad to have a few more bottles tucked away for further enjoyment in a few years.
(93 - 95+)
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6/18/2019 - Patrik H Likes this wine: 94 Points
No formal notes
Fine nose of mineral, herbs and raspbarries. The palate is showing a very elegant Burgundian palate. Good acidity.
Medium + finish
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6/6/2019 - d'Artagnan wrote: 92 Points
Un 2005 élégant, rond, pas trop extrait et civilisé, tanins fins, encore jeune et sans doute promis à une progression en longueur et profondeur. 92 pts
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5/28/2019 - BradE wrote:
Still somewhat primary. The 05’s need more time.
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5/27/2019 - Jammy Wine Likes this wine: 91 Points
Recently I have grown on Domaine des Lambrays wines (previously I only liked their Puligny Montrachet) as I find their light-footed and finesse driven style much more enjoyable than concentrated big-boned wines. Tasted blind - Burgundian nose of charming dark berries, wild herbs, minerals and low pitched wood spices. Lovely purity with Grand cru weight but very gentle structure (good 1er Cru?). Starting to develop which reminds me of 2006. Moret St Denis 1er cru? 2006? (91/100)
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4/14/2019 - AlexB70 wrote: 94 Points
Totally awesome!
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4/1/2019 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 93 Points
Medium ruby. Quite a perfumed nose. Decanted for one hour. Still a young wine but very enjoyable. Needs a couple of more years.
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3/17/2019 - LB88 wrote: 93 Points
Opened 5 hours before drinking. Was still tight and muted when first tasted. Nose was also muted. But after another 3 hours with food started to open up more. Slight minerality with overall balance of a grand cru. Keep for at least 5-10 more years!
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11/17/2018 - conviction buy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pnp, deep red in color. Hawthorn aroma Mixed with other dark fruits and hint of oak spice. On palate, sweet fruits, ample acidity is found with more oak spice which quickly gives way to the long lingering aftertaste of hawthorn, tannin is still present and provide the necessary structure. Lovely wine and shall continue to cellar well.
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11/10/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 92 Points
Clos de Lambrays Vertical 1989-2015; 1/1/2017-9/22/2019: During a la Paulee lunch, so only brief impressions. On the rustic side, lots of unresolved structure, will it come around with more age? For sure needs time.
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7/8/2018 - MJReb wrote: 90 Points
Chez SC: powerful wine, dark, quite rustic, some friends thought that this is Syrah wine from the Rhône, not on the same level as the Clos de Tart 2004 which we had some minutes earlier, not on the same level as the one drunk some weeks ago.
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6/15/2018 - Plabella Likes this wine: 95 Points
well crafted soft with cherry fruit & minerals
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5/29/2018 - pablopilot Likes this wine: 92 Points
Bloody, red burgundy... I can taste the iron, the steel and red hemoglobin, and it reminds me of the durm and strang of hand to hand combat, the clang of broadsword against plate mail, the desperate screams of victors and victims alike. This is a wine at war with itself. Is it a deep, dark secret of the soul, whispered in darkness as the storm rages and survival is unassured? Is it a feral howl, a bellowing chant of violence and aggression? It has these elements and more.
There is something of the chaotic about this Lambrays, red Corton-like, unknit, a dancing in the dark with demons wildness. I found it impossible to predict where it was going, what point it was trying to make, where we would all end up at the end of the night. It is roadhouse wine, for sure, complex, unresolved, perhaps not quite yet ready for the light of day.
Out of the bottle, opened an hour, we hit blood-iron and steel, dark rose scents, earth, a hint of birch stem, some green leafiness. Gradually, things happened in the glass, and were still happening by the time we poured the last sips down our thirsty gullets. She got better, less strident, less anxious to make herself known and more content that we were on her side and would not abandon her. But she never quite got to where I wanted her to be.
Let’s revisit in another 5 years. It is a risky tactic. Some of the flavors range to plumminess, coca-cola, fig-infused balsamic... umami for sure... tannin, yes, but acidity, not so much. Where will it all lead, we ponder... to a triumphant resolve in complex precision (or is it precise complexity?)? Or to a big fat sloppy mess of component parts strewn across the battlefield like limbs and offal... Time, we know for sure, will tell.
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5/25/2018 - MJReb wrote: 94 Points
Gifted and opened by a friend during the meal, despite of a 2 hour decant, still very primary and young, red cherry fruit, quite massive, plenty of earthy notes, stony. Very interesting and good, but way too young.
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4/22/2018 - Force5 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Like other recent notes, consumed much too young, but I wanted to sample this for the first time, and the (filtered) last glass that had sat in the bottle for a few hours was very very delicious - black fruited supple and developed - whereas earlier glasses had the bit of a hard edge and restraint I expected from consuming too early. Will be good.
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3/16/2018 - Plabella Likes this wine: 95 Points
delicious wine great cherry fruit a long lingering after taste. This is a burgundy grand Cru that makes the grade.
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3/3/2018 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Paulee. Nice balance, far too young.
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1/13/2018 - Dehrmann Likes this wine: 94 Points
Red fruit nose, slight spice, earth, silky yet mineral, very balanced and elegant...probably too early...hold
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11/17/2017 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
From magnum, ultra dark color, rich fruit, and reasonably accessible with silky tannins. This is still a baby, but it's enjoyable now. I'd imagine that 750's would be even better. This mag in 15-20 years will probably leave people speechless. Today, it was just a fun way to check in on the '05 vintage.
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8/30/2017 - conviction buy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Color is med ruby. Red fruits, strawberry nose and hint of spice. Medium concentration on palate, sweet friuts and smooth tannin yield a very refined approach. Restrained use of oak that maintained the fruit freshness, lovely acidity with hawthorn finish.
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7/7/2017 - Armoni01 Likes this wine: 99 Points
Simply put, the best wine I tasted on a trip to Burgundy out of 100+ wines of varying maturity. I think popping this open now is fine as it is fully matured yet perhaps not quite at its peak. Spices and remarkably fresh fruit on the nose, but silky smooth, perfectly balanced and a long memorable finish.
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6/9/2017 - Billigan Likes this wine:
Tremendous potential here, but still way too young, even from this half bottle. The grand cru depth shows through even on the nose, which is full of cloves, red berry fruit, a little balsa wood, and iron, all beautifully delineated. Firm and structured on the palate, but the tannins are fine, the fruit is perfectly ripe, and the texture feels like velvet (that will one day turn to silk). Give this another 10 years or more before opening, and it'll be just dynamite.
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6/7/2017 - gsquireh Likes this wine: 95 Points
Delicious from nose to finish this twelve year old is beginning to play in the majors and have a long career. Decanted for two hours and drank with a 1995 Chateau Marguax over the next two hours. Aromatically excellent -violets, sweetly scented petunias and the spicy clove floral scent of Bougainvillea carnation. The fruit - black cherry, black raspberry and blackberry, is enveloped by a spiced, earthy, elegant texture. The rich and concentrated mouth feel is layered with beautiful finesse, and balanced from tongue to mouth swirl to a glory finish. Great now and over the next fifteen years.
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4/21/2017 - MWiking wrote: 95 Points
tycker det här vinet är helt fantastiskt bra! moget och härligt och nästan svårt att skilja på om det är en riktigt bra barbaresco eller en topp Bourgogne, fantastiskt god. fortfarande mycket frukt och det finns taniner kvar samtidigt som det har mognat och mjuknat på ett bra sätt.
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4/4/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Dinner and a Great Mix of Wines at Lonny's (Lonny's Place, Mpls): Dark red color. Not sure if this got any air. Drank 1 glass over an hour. This was a terrific young Lambrays. Very good intensity. spiced, dark berry fruit, earthy, funk, very concentrated and layered and so nicely balanced. Needs 3 to 5 years to really shine, but this just kept getting better in glass. 92+ to 93pts.
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4/4/2017 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points
Drinking better than I would have expected for an 05. That said, this really should not be touched until at least 2020 plus 1 = 2021:). Even then, the more ideal scenario is likely around 2025. Having said that, this was really fun to try, showed terrific balance, elegance and finesse. Just no forest floor or shrooms yet. Mostly the fruit at this point and some solid minerality. Its hard to believe but great Burgundy like this, with some pedigree, really needs a solid 20 years to be a potential epiphany drink. Problem is my buddy isn't much younger than I and I'm 61 so you're always eager to drink these before you loose your faculties :). I really appreciate Lonny popping this! It is truly a great wine in the making and dam good today.
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4/4/2017 - robferguson1 wrote: 91 Points
Fairly forward but plenty of life left
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3/4/2017 - Dmiller3 wrote: 91 Points
Lovely - drink now
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2/27/2017 - BradA wrote: 93 Points
Infanticide. Just simply an error to drink this wine at the present time. Does it have good fruit?-- yes. Acid is well balanced, mid palate developed and the tannin is silky. Yet, I know there is so much more coming if I were to wait. Alas, my last bottle is gone........
Upside to 94/95 for those who have some ...
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1/25/2017 - BradE wrote:
Consistent with my previous experiences, a good but not great wine. I would expect more from this producer in 2005.
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11/24/2016 - Dmiller3 wrote: 90 Points
Really nice - no hint of alcohol heat - very smooth. Decanted but may not even need that. Should be drinking for a bit more and will wait to open next
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11/16/2016 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 95 Points
Ranjan's 113th Birthday Dinner (Members' Lounge, Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong): (From 6.0L decanted for an hour or threabouts). Transparent robust lambs' blood colour. Nose is highly perfumed but with more rose petals than the strawberries or damp woodland I might have expected. Palate is beautifully poised, harmonious and rounded.....quite sweet woodland wild strawberries and medium Asian spice box that grows stronger over time. Very elegant and poised. Good and reverberant length. Gosh....still very young but very enjoyable and approachable. I would love to re-visit this in 10 years' time.
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10/11/2016 - Vinophiliac559 wrote: 94 Points
BDay Wine Dinner (Annex Fresno): 93-94+ This was the WOTN for me. Decanted for 1-2 hrs. Still very primary and needs time to develop. Nose of bright red cherry and gravel. Palate matched with great acidity and structure for the long haul. Excited to see how this one develops.
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10/4/2016 - Koods wrote:
awesome.
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8/20/2016 - Sotto325 wrote: 91 Points
Rating will be higher in time. I am big fan of Clos des Lambrays and have witnessed their usually bright, youthful exuberance give way to the tunnel of closing down, followed by emergence with greater corps and more complex,darker fruit than the initial brighter cherry and slight cassis overtones.
Decanted for 1+ hours and drunk for another 1-2 hours. There is plenty of dark fruit hiding here now, along with some mild wild brambly tastes and the 2005 is undoubtedly still emerging from the tunnel--not there yet. The absence of tannin after decanting suggests that the always-exuberant C des L will unfold over the next few years. I would let it sit for another few years.
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7/12/2016 - BradE wrote:
Drank nicely, but surprisingly light for an 05. Not the powerhouse that critics seem to have expected tasting it early.
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6/30/2016 - salil wrote: 94 Points
Dry Riesling and Burgundy night (Olea, New Haven): I expected this to be painfully young and inscrutable at this stage. It's certainly incredibly youthful, but with a few hours in the decanter this opened out into an absolutely stunning Burgundy that has all the depth, power, and finesse I could ask for from a Grand Cru. The aromatics are stunning - bright high toned floral and stemmy notes, more savoury earthy, tree bark, and stony notes, and beneath is a core of incredibly fresh, juicy red and dark fruit that's perfectly ripe without ever feeling too rich or intense. There's serious depth and power on the palate but also remarkable finesse, and the finish is impressively long even though the tannic spine makes itself felt on the back end. Stunning wine, though I expect this to only get better with time.
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5/7/2016 - Bordeaux_Jon Does not like this wine: 90 Points
Cherry, cherry, and more cherry, and then some oxidized cherry. This was tasted from a half bottle. The palate was, you guessed it, cherry, with serious tart acidity. Sure, it was a decent Burgundy and offered qualities you might expect from a year as fantastic as 2005, but at the Bourgogne level. Perhaps it just needs 10 more years? I don't care to find out.
For the record, this was the last straw and I plan to sell my Red Burgundy collection. Red Burgundies are so expensive, and they all smell and taste pretty much the same to me. Yup, you guessed it, like cherry. While they make pleasant drinking for millionaires. I can't bring myself to open a $300 bottle of sour cherry cooler any more. I figure these "precious gems" deserve a better home in a more discerning collector's house.
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4/27/2016 - melzar wrote: 94 Points
From 375: Perhaps a little more evolved than examples from larger formats. This wine is entering (at least from small format) it's drinking window. Beautiful refined pinot nose, and impeccably balanced on the palate.Fine tannins and good acidity provide focus. Lingering fruit filled finish. In a word, elegant. Long life ahead.
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3/17/2016 - Rdelmer wrote:
Drinking spectacularly. Still on the way up. Hints of Chocolate...deserves to be opened in advance for full effect.
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2/24/2016 - llink wrote: 89 Points
Vertical blind tasting of 02-05, my third place wine.
Double decanted and then tasted 3 hours later. Very surprising result to say the least. This had a rather closed, muted nose. There are some stems on the nose that show a little green, you could easily think this was the 04 (if not for the overt greenie-meanies showing on the 04.) The palate was very dry and astringent, with a metallic taste that was hard to pin down. I think the stems are dominating this wine and not letting the beautiful 05 vintage shine through, I hope that time cures this, but tonight it was not very impressive.
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1/28/2016 - RayOB wrote: 95 Points
Clos des Lambrays Tasting (The Fine Wine Experience (Hong Kong)): Great nose and palate. A really complete wine with great length.
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11/6/2015 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Highly structured and slightly reductive with dark sweet cherries and slightly musky. A little Nz pinot like in the fruit department and Very approachable.
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10/16/2015 - RayOB wrote: 92 Points
Drank at Tate
Nose of raspberries, strawberries, flowers and earth. Delicate light palate with a medium length. Nice.
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9/27/2015 - BradE wrote:
From 375ml. Decent, but this is good, not great.
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8/3/2015 - MWiking Likes this wine: 94 Points
way to young is my first impression, it takes time for this wine to open up as its really shy from the beginning,
after a while you get a shy wild raspberry nose, with forest fruits and wet forrest feeling on the nose, also some minerals.
on the mouth we got wild raspberries, forest floor, mineral, a smooth feeling, really elegant and beautiful. maybe a bit thin?
I really like this wine, its right up my alley.
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7/12/2015 - Sonoma Duck Likes this wine: 94 Points
This wine opened up after a two hour decant. Medium ruby, elegant fruit, finish lasts for a long time. Needs at least five more years.
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1/21/2015 - brucegolfer wrote: 94 Points
Drank a 3.0L bottle at a big birthday celebration at a 3-star restaurant (my bottle). Absolutely superb balance of fruit, acidity and tannins. An excellent example.
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1/2/2015 - jerhardt wrote: 92 Points
This wine really surprised me. I had not had it since release, and this showing was far more open and soft than I was expecting. A delicate, pretty wine, with soft red fruit. I am honestly a bit nervous at how quickly this is aging given the vintage, cru, etc.
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11/1/2014 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
HDH Auction (Tru - Chicago, IL): I hadn't tried this in a while, and this was certainly interesting. Tasted it blind and based on the weight and energy on the palate I thought it was a Foillard Cru Beaujolai. It had crunchy red fruits, nice undertones of earth, and dried leaves. Loved the acidity on the palate and the smoothness of the fruit and floral composition.
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11/1/2014 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
HDH Bordeaux Auction; 10/31/2014-11/1/2014 (Chicago, IL): So this has a very pale colour that really isn't representative of its age. Neither is its red fruited nose, which would evoke '07 more than '05. So lithe and pretty, and somehow, very accessible. Very bizarre, in the context of the vintage. Nonetheless, very, very pretty, as all Lambrays wines are.
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8/21/2014 - cephomer Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drank at the Cape with the family. Medium red ruby color, nose of black fruit, spice and earth. Medium bodied, fairly sweet black cherries and blackberries very apparent up front, followed by lots of spice & earthiness. Wonderfully complex dense wine with great length. This wine is in a sweet spot right now
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6/16/2014 - Cote d'Or Likes this wine:
PopnPour, from 375 mL, tasted over 3 hrs
-ruby with dark core, no bricking
-moderately aromatic, regal, elegant, dark fruits
-med acidity, classic power without weight, somewhat reticent dark red and black fruit, a little bit of Lambrays spice and barest hint of oak, med- tannins, great length
-still a little young but oh what harmony, beautiful with stately elegance, a perfect example for the nature of the vintage
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6/1/2014 - ludwigbpm wrote: 93 Points
Sans notes
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5/21/2014 - d'Artagnan wrote: 92 Points
Nez de sous-bois, de fruit rouge.
Bouche vigoureuse mais de classe, très tannique mais avec du fond, de la fraicheur, il deviendra très beau dans 5-10 ans. 92+ pts
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5/16/2014 - rshelleman wrote: 94 Points
Beautiful wine. Opened three hours before dinner. Lovely feminine nose of dark berries with a bit of spice. Very powerful, will be great to revisit in another 5 years +
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4/15/2014 - Rupert wrote: 92 Points
A Lambrays dinner (The Stafford, St James's, London): Tight, black cherry fruit, lots of tannin, not very expressive, but serious and fine
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4/15/2014 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Slightly lighter/redder fruit profile than some of the other better vintages served before. Still very structured but so effortlessly elegant and balanced underneath.
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4/6/2014 - bonedocnine wrote: 93 Points
Wonderful grand cru burgundy.
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3/13/2014 - drwine2001 wrote:
Clos des Lambrays-Fifteen Vintages (2011 to 1919) at 2014 La Paulee; 3/13/2014-3/15/2014 (Various Locations, San Francisco): Medium ruby, primary. Brooding, sweaty aromatics as though you could almost smell the tannins. Very backward and dense, but it slowly came out of its shell with a few hours of air. Sappy, tannic, chewy with a bitter chocolate note. No greenness in this one. Forget about it over the short term but loads of potential.
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11/21/2013 - BordeauxBuff Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pinot Noir blind tasting/Café Mangal:
Fine minerality, firm tannins, and dark fruit, which are all integrated well in this wine. Excellent.
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8/13/2013 - bonedocnine wrote: 94 Points
Yup, Grand Cru burgundy. Very nicely structured with ripe fruit. The wine is still quite young and but has a finesse that begs for early drinking.
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5/24/2013 - gfwetzel wrote: 90 Points
After an hour breathing, nice tannin structure, aroma, and palate. This wine has raspberry and blackberry with overtones of tar and tobacco. Nice balance and long finish. The nose is a bit light.
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5/20/2013 - jcoleman Likes this wine: 91 Points
still a little young but this is very expressive with lovely raspberry flavours and some power
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4/21/2013 - KellyW wrote: flawed
corked
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3/4/2013 - dpolivy wrote: 92 Points
DRC Tasting Group (Cafe Veloce): Tasted blind. A bit of heat and stewed tomatoes on the nose. However, quite different on the body. Lighter and a bit austere, though with some red fruit and fine, but drying tannins. Finishes with medium length.
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3/4/2013 - Catnapped Likes this wine: 91 Points
Still a little young I think. A little hot and alcoholic. A bit of asian 5 spices on the palate. Some tasters thought it was a little under-ripe.
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10/17/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Acker Merrall BYO (Domaine Storage - Chicago IL): Tasting. From magnum. Perfumed nose, charming spice, with plenty of black fruit aromas. Lots of power and black cherry and blackberry on palate, slightly shut down, but the power and density show this wine's obvious fundamental potential.
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2/13/2012 - jaimetown wrote:
Out of 375ml, popped and poured. Nose is a little shy and unexpressive, palate is a little flat as well. Then I remembered that I have a cold, and that I am a complete idiot.
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12/17/2011 - jlemerond wrote: 91 Points
Consistent with prior notes, though if i were to quibble this seemed to have a touch less balance. Most bottles I have had, while clearly stuffed with gorgeous ripe fruit, also had a very well delineated structure, with the acidity and tannins giving the wine great definition in the mouth. This bottle (out of 375) seemed to have less acidity and as a result was a touch flabby (not in an absolute sense, but in a relative sense as compared to prior bottles). but still very enjoyable nonetheless - an incredibly complex array of aromas and tastes in this wine...
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10/10/2011 - Remony wrote: 92 Points
Brought by Duncan Hunter to Bibendum's 2005 BYO Burgundy tasting, which produced a flight of nine wines, and was this year's warm-up before their annual BYO dinner at Le Cafe Anglais. This will be excellent, but needs another 5 years. Diffuse colour (like the '96 at dinner), very good fruit, warm, fine tannins, well-balanced, an enjoyable drink now, no need to spit. Runner-up to Maume's Mazis as WOTF. Score very likely to go up with a few more years in the cellar.
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6/29/2011 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 Points
Clos des Lambrays Vertical (Momofuku Ma Peche): This will be a legend one day. The main thing that strikes you about it is that it's just simply packed with absolutely everything. Loads of really ripe fruit and loads of tannin and loads of stony earth somehow civilized into a fairly streamlined form. When I drank it on release I noted that the needle of the fruit ripeness was just about to teeter in the red zone and it's still remarkable how it can live in that space without tipping over. Fortunately just when the fruit might strike you as too intense the structure reigns in the sweetness. It's not drying the wine out or closing it down just yet, but it's fierce for sure.
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6/23/2011 - CWilliam wrote: 91 Points
Light ruby color. bright fruit - sweet cherry / tart cherry / touch of spiciness on nose & palate. Medium+ body and very long finish. 91++ Excellent wine.
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5/8/2011 - mattsix wrote:
wow- peppery, arugula, black tea, dark berry, great acid, very very smooth.
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4/11/2011 - EMichels wrote: 91 Points
Light nose; Tart
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4/11/2011 - JOsgood wrote: 94 Points
Wow, super yummy stuff here. Big, round and juicy. A gorgeous Lambrays.
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2/12/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
La Paulée de New York Grand Tasting (Metropolitan Pavilion - New York NY): Tasting, brief note. I don't think I've tried this since shortly around release. Dark and intense black fruit, almost brooding, with lots of sweet spice. Similar flavor profile with silky but powerful tannins, lots of acidity and minerality. Certainly some pleasure right now, but much better for the long haul.
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2/12/2011 - ews3 wrote: 94 Points
La Paulee de NY - Grand Tasting (2008 Vintage) (Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC): nice dark fruit and peppercorn. med(+) finish.
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11/19/2010 - BradE wrote:
Nice, and reasonably open for an 05. Sweet, forward, not showing sophistication yet, but enjoyable.
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10/19/2010 - jlemerond wrote: 93 Points
Popped and poured. Dark ruby. Deep nose of t and a, blue fruits and spicy oak. Still completely primary and has yet to absorb the oak. Distinct minerality in the mouth, well structured, but not lean. Good balance between acidity and tannins. Long finish. Long life ahead.
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4/6/2010 - N2Vin wrote: 95 Points
Fantastic burg. Wow, let it warm and breath for a while. Nose is sweet berry, smoke, and barn yard. Very smooth on the palate. Dark color, loaded with red berry and cassis. Oak presence is evident. Very well integrated and forresty if you will. Almost pine like with fresh acidity and medium body.
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11/23/2009 - Alex H wrote: 87 Points
La Paulee Luncheon; 11/19/2009-11/23/2009 (Osvaldos): Undecanted, this is absolutely too young! Sappy dense dark cherry fruits with very tough but firm structure. Has acidity but the tannins are incredible. Has the structure to hold and age for a long time. 10 years at least before it reveals itself. 84-89 pts
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11/12/2009 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 92 Points
Clos de tarts and Vintage Madeira Tasting at John V.'s: This was also served blind. A very pretty wine that more open than most 05's but still in need of much time. Light ruby in color. The nose is quite pretty with violets, meaty funk and cherries. Soft and already complex on the palate with plenty of cherries. Slight anise on the finish and a bit of powdered cherry drink mix. Lovely wine. I can't help thinking that this wine, even with its recent lower pricing, is no longer a value though. It is a good wine and worth owning a couple, but as the price has entered plus $100 it is no longer the last grand Cru value.
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10/2/2009 - winenutnyc wrote:
fantastic- just on the edge of being too ripe, dusty tannins, loads of earth.
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5/15/2009 - jlemerond wrote:
Popped and poured. Bright red ruby with a tinge of blue. Gorgeous nose of sour cherry, spice, and earth, with a hint of tar - probably would have guessed 04 barolo blind. in the mouth great acidity and tannic structure but lots of fruit to back it up. get lots of tobacco on the paate as well. beautiful wine. i wonder if it will close down???
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5/11/2009 - danstrings wrote: 91 Points
Burgundy visit, Côte de Nuits, May 2009; 5/11/2009-5/13/2009 (Burgundy, France): Tasted at domaine -- Adored by Thierry (winemaker), I was slightly less enamored but this is still lovely stuff. Loads of licorice, smoked meats, salami, and crushed pepper. Note that my descriptors are more spice and smoke leaning, I didn't get quite as much fruit as I would have wanted. Still an excellent pinot tho.
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10/22/2008 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Perfect balance on the nose of perfectly ripe fruit. Very fine tannins with amazingly penetrating fruit continuing through a really long finish. Class of the 05s tasted tonight.
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10/21/2008 - Paul D wrote:
Clos de Tart and Clos de Lambrays with Anthony Hanson MW (Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, London): Medium ruby. Ripe, slightly oaky, some toast, lovely pure fruit. Lovely purity and decent depth on the palate with ripe, rounded tannins, well judged oak and very good length. Fresh, youthful but elegant. Excellent ***(*1/2).
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10/21/2008 - Rupert wrote:
Burghound comes to London (One Great George Street): Clear kinship with the 2006, but this was a bit bigger all round, more fragrance, more fruit, more voluptuous, very approachable today [93]
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9/1/2008 - sosgoodjhu wrote: 93 Points
all the great elements are here..big fruits, great depth of flavor, but a bit backward at the moment. This is going to be really good.
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8/29/2008 - JOsgood wrote: 93 Points
Big upside on this wine - attractive nose of fruit, herbs and spice. Bold on the palate although a bit tight. As the wine was exposed to air it closed down quite a bit but retained balance. Enjoyable now but great upside in the future. Lots of tannins that need to melt away at this point.
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5/1/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 96 Points
On the ripeness scale, the needle here is teetering into the red zone, but it's amazing how well the wine manages to handle it -- it doesn't result in any fatness or heavyweight glycerine, just a dark, deep complexion to the fruit while the proportions of the wine are as svelte and graceful as anything I've tasted from this vintage. The flavor profile is deep blueberry, almost inky in its saturation, but the silky, finely grained tannins add just enough friction to the texture to steer the wine away from syrupy territory, but with a light enough touch that it still manages to glide across the palate effortlessly and weightlessly. Fantastic.
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3/30/2008 - Mlermontov wrote: 93 Points
David Bowler Spring Tasting; 3/26/2008-3/30/2008 (Tribecca Grill): developed a LOT in a few months, more open now, showing rich ripe red fruit, spicy, brambles and mushrooms, very powerfull middle and long finish. EXCELLENT
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2/29/2008 - Sky King wrote: 93 Points
The best bottle of Clos des Lambrays I've ever had, ever. Terrific wine, loaded with potential for improvement. Typically 2005 in color, dark, concentrated. Aromatically, excellent expression and intensity, framboise-y and old-viney but in a complex and intriguing way. The impressive aromatics do not completely follow through on the palate, yet. The wine is obviously very concentrated, quite heavy and thick across the mid-palate with some fairly clenching late tannins before the wine had been decanted. Decanted, evaluated and enjoyed over 10 hours. Definitely has potential to improve and prosper. Likely at 25+ year wine in a good cellar. I'm very happy I stocked up. The wine is not yet closed down completely and is worth a look if you are interested.
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1/24/2008 - Ben Andersen wrote:
Second time I've drunk this in the last month. Brief note: while clearly a baby, this shows terrific balance and (dare I say it) breed. Expansive black / red fruits and suave texture. Deftly balanced. Very impressive.
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9/25/2007 - dougsmith wrote: 91 Points
David Bowler Fall 2007 Portfolio Tasting (NYC): Medium ruby color. Miniscule pour. Somewhat closed on the nose, with elements of red and black cherries and earthiness. Fine structure on the palate with black and red fruits and youthful tannins. This needs time.
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