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This comes from a tiny 0.38-hectare plot in a historically revered, walled area within the Gravières vineyard. It’s situated at the northern end of Santenay, close to the Chassagne border, a sort of continuation of the Clos de Tavannes. The Clos sits on a 30° slope and Lamy’s vines quickly tunnel into pure limestone. This has long been a renowned site, with Dr. Jean Lavelle’s famous Burgundy classification already rating the vineyard as a ‘Tête de Cuvée’ in 1855—the highest rating. Lamy makes both white and red from this site (with 0.28 hectares of Pinot vines in the same Clos).
Most of the vines here are reasonably young. Lamy has increased the density and replaced substandard vine material with massale selection cuttings from a parcel of older vines planted in 1968. The outstanding quality he is already delivering offers ample proof of the class of the terroir and the high standard of his work in the vines. Olivier chose to vinify a large part of this cuvée in glass Wineglobes and as you can tell from the notes below, it’s worked out pretty well. It’s early days for this type of vessel but the fact that Olivier is buying more globes each year tells the story. Regardless, if there can be said to be a hidden gem in the Lamy range these days, this is it.