In Burgundy the wines are made exclusively of Pinot Noir with the exception of two wines (Mâcon rouge and Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains). This varietal is well-known since the end of the XIV century, but it  is certainly very much older. The grape is small and compact (it seems like a fir cone) with very small oval seeds, the skin is thin with a velvet blue-black colour. The grape juice is bright. After maceration of the grape skin, which consists pigments of colour, and the fermentation, the red wine gets his very beautiful cherry-red with light violet tints. The Pinot Noir grapes grow on not so deep marly soils, very chalky, stony and good drained on an ideal altitude of 250 and 300 m. The grape is sensitive to vine mildew (oidium). Today in Burgundy the Pinot Noir represents 40% of the entire cultivated area (10.000 hectars). Particularly they are cultivated in Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune and Côte Chalonaise.

Depended on the quality of the terroir the grapes can make as well a simple red wine, fresh, light and fruity as a Grand Cru of the Côte de Nuits with an intensive colour, rich, powerful and complex, which is opening up in a few years. The CLOS DES LAMBRAYS  is made exclusively of Pinot Noir grapes. This kind of grape is one of the finest. We can find some of them in Oregon, South Africa, Switzerland…); these grapes need special conditions of production for express their entire finesse and aromatics fullness and a climate not so warm and not so cold.