Clos des Lambrays Domaine des Lambrays 2024 (750ML)

95 Points, Charles Curtis, Decanter: "Jacques Devauges has every right to be proud of the Clos des Lambrays in 2024, since he has delivered a very substantial wine of impressive structure and lovely length in a very trying year. The aromas are not as forward as the premiers crus, but they open on the palate to show nuanced flavours of pomegranate and ripe black cherries with hints of liquorice, smoke and earth. This wine should open well after five or six years and drink for at least 20 beyond that – it is really top-level wine. (Drink between 2032-2055)" 10/25

94-97 Points, Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy: "All the cuvées are still separate but the sample has them all, and in their right proportions. Nothing selected out. 80% whole bunch vinification. A vigorous ruby red. Another exceptionally fine bouquet, a pure red fruit with some dancing points of spice. This is treading lightly but retaining its tensile strength, a wine of impressive elegance, properly ripe fruit, without the power of 2022 and 2023 of course, but if you want a beautifully refined expression of pure pinot, this will do a pretty good job. Very silky. But note not racked yet so may very well be lifted as the others have been." 11/25

92-94 Points, Allen Meadows, Burghound: "Devauges noted that this had not been racked and predictably at this stage of the élevage, the nose was firmly reduced. By contrast, there is excellent vibrancy and freshness to the succulent and caressing flavors that terminate in a dusty, youthfully austere, lightly stony and impeccably well-balanced finale. This refined effort should amply repay mid to even longer-term cellaring. (Drink starting 2036)" 01/26