Domaine des Lambrays
Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru
Morey-Saint-Denis
2016

The producer

The Domaine des Lambrays estate’s modern history starts in 1996 when it was acquired by the Freune family, who made significant investments in both the land and the cellar. The domaine’s most famous wine is the 8.66-hectare Clos des Lambrays grand cru, which is the largest grand cru vineyard in Burgundy under one single owner. Furthermore, Domaine de Lambrays produce another couple premier cru and village Morey-Saint-Denis and a couple of Puligny-Montrachets. 2019 is the first fully organic vintage in the vineyard.

The wine

Domaine des Lambrays’ most famous wine is the 8.66-hectare Clos des Lambrays grand cru, which is the largest grand cru vineyard in Burgundy under one single owner. The grand cru tends to be made with a relatively large proportion of stems, although this can vary with vintage conditions, and ageing takes place in up to 50% new French oak barrels. These are wines of great purity, power, and elegance. 

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.