Bottle
750 ml
HK$15,000.00
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Domaine Armand Rousseau Pere et Fils
Premier Crus (Burgundy 1935)
Côte de Nuits コート・ディー・ニッツ
Red
2006
Pinot Noir
Pasta
State or Province
Bourgogne ブルゴーニュ / Burgundy バーガンディー
Region
Côte de Nuits コート・ディー・ニッツ
AOC (Appellation)
Vineyard
Clos St. Jacques
Village
Gevrey-Chambertin
Conditions
Other offers
Vintage
Packing and size
Price
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2011
Bottle
(750 ml)
HK$16,000.00
2012
Bottle
(750 ml)
HK$15,000.00
professional wine critic
92-93
Rousseau´s 2006 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St.-Jacques – which received 75% new barrels this year, rather than 100% as in 2005 – is strikingly pungent and bracing even in the nose, mingling fresh sour cherry, cherry pit, bitter-sweet herbal concentrate, iodine, peat, and hints of game. This attacks the palate as its aromas anticipated, and hints of black pepper and chalk add to the invigorating sense of grip. Even (as this was when I tasted it) prior bottling – which at Rousseau involves pumping and bottling – the overall impression here is relatively spare and delicate. But this offers a fine example of how this need not preclude sheer flavor intensity or energy, present in spades here. The finish is impressively pungent and piquant, and one can safely assume at least a decade of fascination is in store for the owners of bottles. Since Eric Rousseau – as mentioned in my issue 170 run-down of his methodology – does not on principle utilize a sorting table, I imagined the aftermath of hail in 2006 presenting a special challenge to his pickers and to bottled quality, but it was one he and his team clearly surmounted. Clos de Beze, Griotte-, and Chapelle-Chambertin were the worst-effected, relates Rousseau, along with numerous of his village-level parcels. Potential alcohol levels are closer to 2003´s record highs than they are to those of 2005, but the finished 2006s – while hardly as successful as their immediate predecessors – do not suffer any spirituous roughness or heat, and are thus free to effectively make their relatively light, bright, and in the best instances distinctive statements. Rousseau reports – and my limited opportunities for comparison confirm – that the initially rather austere and even brittle, disjointed personalities of these wines were ameliorated in the course of elevage, and the best of them have blossomed beautifully. (I was unable to taste several top wines here after bottling, so my notes on those are based on a representative sampling and blending from cask shortly before bottling.)
October, 2023
91-94
Here too there is a gentle touch of wood spice framing the more elegant and ultra refined red pinot fruit nose that also evidences ample minerality that continues onto the rich, sweet and sappy middle weight flavors that are almost delicate yet focused, pure and sneaky long as the flavor impact is really impressive. A wine of finesse and understatement in 2006.
October, 2023
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