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    1 212
  • Producer ranking ?

    15
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

This Grand Cru ranks among the 100 best red wines of the world. / The vineyard Clos des Lambrays is one of the greatest surface area in Grand Cru from all the Côte de Nuits.. The Clos des Lambrays is full-bodied, rough and supple, "a hand of iron in a glove of velvet". With flavors of black fruits (blackberries and blueberries), powerful, elegant with round and noble tannins.

Clos des Lambrays is made with Burgundy’s great black variety Pin...

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Vintage 1988

1988 VINTAGE in Burgundy / 1988 has been a good vintage in Burgundy, with enough quantity to offset the revived demand of our foreign and home customers.​

Good summer weather meant an early harvest of excellent quality for the reds. Rich and well structured, these wines which were a little rough in their youth today offer a wonderful opportunity to drink quality mature Pinot Noir, the best will continue to improve. The great whites can be p...

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A trio of Lambrays was next, beginning with our second wine from our youngest vintage and a 1988 Clos des Lambrays. It had a deep nose with great vitamin fruit, a lot more fruit than I remember having in any 1988 Burgundy for a while. There were solid red fruits on the palate, but a darker and drier finish. This was a ‘gamey, gone wild and sauvage’ wine in a ‘meet the Flintstones’ (vitamin) kind of way (93).
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Dijon, Burgundy

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