Community Tasting Notes 39

• La Grappe Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 1, 2024 - Medium depth of colour; elegant, ripe fruit, with blueberry, redcurrant and plum, quite intense, full and rich. There is a little tannin still, but it does not intrude. This is an exceptional wine, which is so good to drink now but which will keep for many years.

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• BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 24, 2021 - Served blind. Immediately picked this out as 03 based on the nose - more raisin-y than all other wines before, clearly very ripe vintage, dark chocolate. On the palate this shows too but it has decent enough freshness for the wine not to get cloying in any way, but it still shows a bit of syrupy next to other "normal"/fresher vintages. Very good for the vintage but I am not a fan of 03. This is a very good 03 but the conclusion remains that 03 is not a Burgundian vintage and what you get in Burgundy 03 you might get from other wines (Bordeaux, New World etc).

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• liber Likes this wine: 96 points

  May 29, 2021 - 3rd of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, silk turning to velvet, strawberry touched by balsamic more apparent, but otherwise as previously noted (cf Sept 20 and 19), considerable upside. VF (18.5).

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• liber Likes this wine: 96 points

  September 12, 2020 - 2nd of 12, decanted 80 minutes, perfect cork and level, maybe even silkier and showing some strawberry than last September's bottle, grippy, great complexity and class, years of development ahead. VF (18.5).....pipped by on form Lafite 98, my dp guest thoght it an 02 Chambertin such is its quality in this under-rated vintage!

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• Andrewbdc wrote: 96 points

  February 14, 2020 - Pale garnet. Pronounced nose - ripe and dried red fruits (cherry, strawberry, red currant), smoke, spice, Chinese tea, violets, forest floor, mushroom, truffle. Developing. Dry palate, high acidity, medium fine tannins, med+ body, med alcohol, long finish. Multiple layers of flavour, very silky. Outstanding. Fruit balanced by the acidity. Rich but not overly ripe. Great freshness despite the very hot vintage. Has great typicity. Finish goes on and on. This is drinking beautifully now. No doubt it will develop further tertiary complexity, but I like it whilst it still has some primary fruit.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos St. Jacques
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru

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• In Cellars 481 (64%)
• Consumed 260 (35%)

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