Domaine des Lambrays Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les Loups 2022

Domaine des Lambrays Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les Loups 2022

from barrel immediately prior to bottling and in bottle

the 2014 Proprietary Red IX Estate is an old-fashioned Médoc blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon

The mid-palate of the broad-shouldered flavors is pliant yet intense and muscular while the driving finish possesses breathtakingly good depth and persistence on the imposingly structured but not really rigid or unduly austere finale

The 2012 IX Proprietary Red Estate

While there is a hint of vegetal on the now fully mature aromas of spicy secondary fruit

orange zest and brioche notes

Big and burly

This full-bodied wine is silky

There is a lovely sense of underlying tension to the mineral-inflected

The palate is very harmonious

Here the wood and menthol influences are a good deal less subtle and while they don't dominate the even spicier and slightly riper liqueur-like cassis

even more youthful than the 1989 and 1990