Clos des Lambrays 2006

Clos des Lambrays / Lambrays, Domaine des

Excel download

View All Vintages of this Wine

Units Size Case size GBP Price: Quantities Buy
Tasting Notes

An elegant, refined, complex and notably floral nose displays moderately ripe red berry fruit aromas that are nuanced by earth, stone and spice undertones. There is good verve to the sappy and mouth coating medium-bodied flavors that possess good if not special concentration and dry extract on the impressively long and slightly warm finish. This appears to have just a bit more potential than I gave it credit for when I first reviewed it and I have accordingly raised my score. While not surprising at only 10 years of age, this remains markedly tight and will require at least 5 to 7 more years of bottle age before it reaches its apogee. Tasted twice over the past few years with consistent results.

Score: 92

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2021+ 30 April 2016

The 2006 Clos des Lambrays has an elegant bouquet, very pure with light strawberry, raspberry leaf, orange zest and a hint of leather. Good delineation, although not great vigour or fruit concentration. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly “furry” tannin, notes of redcurrant and strawberry but then clamming in on itself towards the more structured, and slightly sulky finish. I would afford this a couple more years in the cellar or at least generous decanting, as this is a bashful Clos des Lambrays that needs to acclimatise to the life after bottle. Drink 2012-2020.

Score: 90

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2012-2020 01 March 2010

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.

Score: 92

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 March 2009