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Paul S wrote:

Saturday, December 15, 2012 - End of the World Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Tremendous. This rounded up a trio of Grand Cru Burgs beautifully, and as good as the two Rousseau wines that preceded it were, I thought that this was perhaps the best of its flight, showing a touch more depth and complexity than either of them. It had an amazing bouquet, with layers of Morey spice and meat and earth on a lovely undercurrent of blueberries and black cherries, and then a pretty whiff of violets and just a tiny citrusy lift. Lovely stuff. It was the palate that really knocked my socks off though. This had all the light freshness of the 2001 vintage, but unlike say the 2001 Ruchottes earlier, it also had a reservoir of depth and lots of fleshy fruit above its fresh acidity, with a supple strength and muscle in an attack that showed rich flavours blueberries and dark cherries robed in lovely, velvety tannins. I thought the midpalate was just a bit on the tighter side, lacking some of the power and authority of the start, but the wine made up for it with it on the finish, where it was all sweeping grace and elegance, with the silkiest feel to otherwise savoury, masculine flavours of smoked meat and earth and toasty spice, with a hint of the violets picked up on the nose floating away around a core dark fruit. A beautiful expression of the Clos St Denis vineyard, this was quite the iron fist in a velvet glove. A great wine even now, but though this had been opened a couple of hours before serving, it still came across as the youngest and most tightly wound of the three wines, one that was just about creeping towards its drinking window. Assuming the world does not end on 21 December 2012, I would give it some 3-4 years more before opening another.

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