We are the corked Roumier specialists, we hunt down corked Roumiers so it's safer for you Roumier lovers out there. This time, we killed a big boss, and we drank it like it didn't happen, the corked stuff and our tears all in one gulp.
Wine of the night by far, this was drinking beautifully. So pretty! Dark, rich and powerful fruit, silky and elegant, with lovely aromatics. I get nervous opening 05' red burg as I've had more than a few that were not quite ready yet, or perhaps forever overly structured and never going to get there. This was perfectly balanced though and very much in the zone.
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Slow oxed for 2 hour plus before serving. Surprised how accessible it was given it is an 05. Nose exhibited darkish red fruit, cured meat, candied fruit, Asian spice and smoke. Palate was round and sweet with layers. Very good complexity throughout the evening. A very complete Chambolle. 94+
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Le Chambard Alsace Cherry with smoked meat and mushrooms Lots of tertiary elements for an 05. Complexity that developed over dinner with time in the glass. This was the wine of the trip
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Something a bit wild and animale to the nose. It has a core of the most intense and luscious black cherry fruit. There are purple florals and ample structure buried below the flesh. It is a ripe wine, but the finish is cool and stony and very long.
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Going Up The Country: Suburban Bliss & Wines to Match (Craig & Nita's Place): Medium dark red color with a 2mm clear edge. Slow-O for the better part of the day, but refer to Chablis28's specific on prep and his excellent note. Geez, just a wow nose, so sexy and compelling. Blood orange, roses, rose hips, an immense floral perfume, gardenia, cherry, complex dried spice box, moss, and wood spices on a high toned and lifted nose. The palate is medium plus bodied with a sleekness to the silky Chambolle-Musigny textures, bright cherry fruit, touches of cranberry, tart and juicy, soil, great acid, and so well integrated for an '05 too. Superb and blissful, a rare treat; thanks Craig for sharing.
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Chef Don Saunder's food entices 7 city dwellers to our place in the exurbs! 8 of us plus Nita & Joe enjoyed Don's magnificent food tonight 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis. What a night!! CV,KB,SS,CS,DM,DD,LI, & DS. With plenty of air this wine was superb tonight! My btl alongside Lonny's stellar '05 Clos Lambrays MSD. At age 17+ this is somewhere in its early mid prime drinking window. I started slow-oxing this in btl and a Riedel Burg glass a good 5hrs before we got around to drinking it as one of last course. The fruit purity, intensity, balance and all-round regal sense of this wine is beyond reproach. I was lucky to have snatched a couple semi reasonably on release and patiently squirrelled them away in my cellar. This had intoxicating aromas of rose's, emerging forest floor & mineral. The palate is powerfully intense yet quite silky & refined with superb raspberry, mineral, spice and rising forest floor notes. Depending on how many btls you have open one anytime but know this will be around a long long time if choose to hold it. I'll attempt to hold my 2nd till 2030+ for its 25th. 97+
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Bottle decant for 3 hours. Color is more purple, looks very young, looks like a after 2010 wine. Reserved aroma, medium flavor intensity, low tanning but noticeable alcohol burning feeling.
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Powerful ball of blue and red fruit, not quite as primary as other 05s but still primary. Needs 10 years for the structure to soften properly and it proves again that while 2005 holds so much promise at present it's that ... promise.
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Dark, rich, creamy, a wee bit toasted, but there is a lot of life in the Pinot here, a good core; very young still, will come together, surely. 93+ #CP
Tart red cherry, mixed spice, and leather define the 2005 Les Cras. Broad red fruit flavors are supported by a firm mineral spine and there's incredible density and oomph here without any sense of weight. This opened up with air but best to wait. Drink starting 2022.
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Another delicious bottle of this. Almost exactly the same qualities as one had in May. Still quite youthful but definitely a pleasure to drink now. Will be even more impressive and complex in 5-8 years.
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What a perfect beauty. Quite full, resonant, long finish. Keeps changing in glass but with a lovely mineral spine, clearly Chambolle in elegant fruit but with just a bit more force and energy you expect from this site in such a vintage. Really fabulous and pedigreed. Think you can start drinking now (one of first 2005 1ers I’ve said that about) but will develop and go for years.
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cras vertical, beautiful wine, maybe the biggest in the flight, red fruit that shone brightly, great structure but young, acids give you mouth pucker... I liked it very much but probably the wine that you throw at the bottom of the pile and wait 10-20 yrs
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At Acker's Wine Workshop Chambolle-Musigny Terroir Tasting at the Michaelangelo NY. Smooth and velvety. Soft fruit, though still a bit tight. Is it worth the price? Not sure. Is it a good drink? Yes, but I can see the score improving a point or two in the next few years. 92-93
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Great nose that is initially comparable to the ‘05 village in terms of fresh dark red and black cherry fruit with detectable wood polish, but accelerates with booming red and black cherry fruit with added spices and intricacies. Already complex and expressive. Perfumed. On the palate this is surprisingly silky and has a beautiful texture along with robust black cherry and blackberry power. Long and beautifully balanced. I really see it in this wine. Great.
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Usually young and tight is a good thing, but for this wine it isn't. Really holding back but seems to have great potential. The fruit is dark almost burnt with ferrous notes. Will be interesting to try in 10yrs.
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Some Bottles from a Week in France; 4/14/2013-4/21/2013 (Paris, Northern Burgundy, Alsace): Medium ruby. Not surprisingly, closed at first, but this really blossomed with 3 hours in the decanter. Earth and tart red fruit aromas. Initially, all that you tasted was round, sustantial tannins, but it developed beautiful texture, strawberry fruit and licorice. This is a larger than life Chambolle with exquisite acidity and a strongly muneral finish. It is Grand Cru in everything but name, and I was amazed at how much more forthcoming it was than 2 years ago. However, this may be just a passing phase before it clamps down again. Glad to catch it on a good day!
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Les plus grands domaines de bourgogne selon la RVF: Un vin parfumé et complexe, sur les fruits rouges et noirs, alliant concentration, équilibre et classicisme. Très minéral. Tannins fondus, malgré sa jeunesse évidente. 92
Goodbye Dinner for Gabriel's Restaurant (Gabriel's - Highwood IL): I do not distinctly remember tasting this wine this night, but my friend Jeff insisted he poured some for me. Lo and behold, I actually wrote a tasting note on this wine, but alas can only read approximately every other word I wrote. So what I can decipher is that this has great spice, needs until at least 2020 to soften, and was very tight right now, somewhat backward.
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Full of packed red and black fruit on the nose. Deep and complex. Asian spices, violets, rapberry and almost a bit dusty. Delivering a fruit bomb in the mouth. Focused sensual fruit with an underlying power that is really impressive. Big 1er Cru. I say it is big as a Grand Cru. Not very typical Chambolle in style. It is is still a baby but what a sweet wonderful baby. I am happy to still have a couple more in the cellar. Will not open the next one before 2014 though. I love this.
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HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Yes. Epic nose. Plush red fruit, with some dusty notes. The nose is concentrated and intense. Great concentration and depth. Some earthy mushroom notes on the palate; there is lots of complexity here.
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Miscellaneous Notes from France; 11/5/2011-11/11/2011 (Paris and Burgundy): Unbelievably deep robe. After an hour decant, huge for Chambolle but approachable due to the volume of red fruit. It combines a lush feel with a powerful attack that is driven by both bright acids and tannins that rise through the finish. Some sense of soil as well. This will never be known as a wine of finesse, but it has Grand Cru concentration and power. I trust long aging will result in a monumental wine but one that might never be picked out as a Chambolle because of its density.
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La Paulée de New York: Vertical Tasting (Colicchio & Sons - New York NY): Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe, mostly black fruit aromas with good floral support. Powerful and dense black cherry and blackberry flavors, with intense tannins and minerality. Needs plenty of time in the cellar.
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3/14/2024 - wineton.mee wrote: flawed
We are the corked Roumier specialists, we hunt down corked Roumiers so it's safer for you Roumier lovers out there. This time, we killed a big boss, and we drank it like it didn't happen, the corked stuff and our tears all in one gulp.
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10/1/2023 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 97 Points
Wine of the night by far, this was drinking beautifully. So pretty! Dark, rich and powerful fruit, silky and elegant, with lovely aromatics. I get nervous opening 05' red burg as I've had more than a few that were not quite ready yet, or perhaps forever overly structured and never going to get there. This was perfectly balanced though and very much in the zone.
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8/15/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Slow oxed for 2 hour plus before serving. Surprised how accessible it was given it is an 05. Nose exhibited darkish red fruit, cured meat, candied fruit, Asian spice and smoke. Palate was round and sweet with layers. Very good complexity throughout the evening. A very complete Chambolle. 94+
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6/16/2023 - Kevnzworld wrote: 96 Points
Le Chambard Alsace
Cherry with smoked meat and mushrooms
Lots of tertiary elements for an 05.
Complexity that developed over dinner with time in the glass.
This was the wine of the trip
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2/25/2023 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Something a bit wild and animale to the nose. It has a core of the most intense and luscious black cherry fruit. There are purple florals and ample structure buried below the flesh. It is a ripe wine, but the finish is cool and stony and very long.
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2/9/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 97 Points
Going Up The Country: Suburban Bliss & Wines to Match (Craig & Nita's Place): Medium dark red color with a 2mm clear edge. Slow-O for the better part of the day, but refer to Chablis28's specific on prep and his excellent note. Geez, just a wow nose, so sexy and compelling. Blood orange, roses, rose hips, an immense floral perfume, gardenia, cherry, complex dried spice box, moss, and wood spices on a high toned and lifted nose. The palate is medium plus bodied with a sleekness to the silky Chambolle-Musigny textures, bright cherry fruit, touches of cranberry, tart and juicy, soil, great acid, and so well integrated for an '05 too. Superb and blissful, a rare treat; thanks Craig for sharing.
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2/9/2023 - chablis28 wrote: 97 Points
Chef Don Saunder's food entices 7 city dwellers to our place in the exurbs! 8 of us plus Nita & Joe enjoyed Don's magnificent food tonight 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis. What a night!! CV,KB,SS,CS,DM,DD,LI, & DS. With plenty of air this wine was superb tonight! My btl alongside Lonny's stellar '05 Clos Lambrays MSD. At age 17+ this is somewhere in its early mid prime drinking window. I started slow-oxing this in btl and a Riedel Burg glass a good 5hrs before we got around to drinking it as one of last course. The fruit purity, intensity, balance and all-round regal sense of this wine is beyond reproach. I was lucky to have snatched a couple semi reasonably on release and patiently squirrelled them away in my cellar. This had intoxicating aromas of rose's, emerging forest floor & mineral. The palate is powerfully intense yet quite silky & refined with superb raspberry, mineral, spice and rising forest floor notes. Depending on how many btls you have open one anytime but know this will be around a long long time if choose to hold it. I'll attempt to hold my 2nd till 2030+ for its 25th. 97+
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7/7/2022 - vetty wrote: 92 Points
Bottle decant for 3 hours.
Color is more purple, looks very young, looks like a after 2010 wine.
Reserved aroma, medium flavor intensity, low tanning but noticeable alcohol burning feeling.
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11/30/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 94 Points
Powerful ball of blue and red fruit, not quite as primary as other 05s but still primary. Needs 10 years for the structure to soften properly and it proves again that while 2005 holds so much promise at present it's that ... promise.
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9/27/2020 - beatles wrote: 93 Points
Dark, rich, creamy, a wee bit toasted, but there is a lot of life in the Pinot here, a good core; very young still, will come together, surely. 93+
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6/1/2019 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
Tart red cherry, mixed spice, and leather define the 2005 Les Cras. Broad red fruit flavors are supported by a firm mineral spine and there's incredible density and oomph here without any sense of weight. This opened up with air but best to wait. Drink starting 2022.
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10/25/2018 - LW31 Likes this wine:
Another delicious bottle of this. Almost exactly the same qualities as one had in May. Still quite youthful but definitely a pleasure to drink now. Will be even more impressive and complex in 5-8 years.
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5/11/2018 - LW31 Likes this wine: 93 Points
What a perfect beauty. Quite full, resonant, long finish. Keeps changing in glass but with a lovely mineral spine, clearly Chambolle in elegant fruit but with just a bit more force and energy you expect from this site in such a vintage. Really fabulous and pedigreed. Think you can start drinking now (one of first 2005 1ers I’ve said that about) but will develop and go for years.
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5/3/2018 - Machiavelli wrote:
Roumier Les Cras vertical. Pure potential. Deep, rich, long finish, loaded with fruit, tannins, and acidity.
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5/3/2018 - beachbum wrote:
cras vertical, beautiful wine, maybe the biggest in the flight, red fruit that shone brightly, great structure but young, acids give you mouth pucker... I liked it very much but probably the wine that you throw at the bottom of the pile and wait 10-20 yrs
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4/17/2018 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points
At Acker's Wine Workshop Chambolle-Musigny Terroir Tasting at the Michaelangelo NY. Smooth and velvety. Soft fruit, though still a bit tight. Is it worth the price? Not sure. Is it a good drink? Yes, but I can see the score improving a point or two in the next few years. 92-93
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4/10/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Great nose that is initially comparable to the ‘05 village in terms of fresh dark red and black cherry fruit with detectable wood polish, but accelerates with booming red and black cherry fruit with added spices and intricacies. Already complex and expressive. Perfumed. On the palate this is surprisingly silky and has a beautiful texture along with robust black cherry and blackberry power. Long and beautifully balanced. I really see it in this wine. Great.
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9/9/2016 - johnh1001 wrote: 91 Points
Usually young and tight is a good thing, but for this wine it isn't. Really holding back but seems to have great potential. The fruit is dark almost burnt with ferrous notes. Will be interesting to try in 10yrs.
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11/7/2015 - chanukha Likes this wine: 95 Points
After 10 years, it's still bit young in my opinion.
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7/5/2015 - astroman Likes this wine:
2005 Burgundy Village or Premier Cru: Beautiful aromas w pandan bouquet good acid with slight thin palate.
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2/28/2015 - muchomaas Likes this wine: 90 Points
Three hour slow-ox, no decant. If I owned, I would wait another 15 years.
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4/20/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Some Bottles from a Week in France; 4/14/2013-4/21/2013 (Paris, Northern Burgundy, Alsace): Medium ruby. Not surprisingly, closed at first, but this really blossomed with 3 hours in the decanter. Earth and tart red fruit aromas. Initially, all that you tasted was round, sustantial tannins, but it developed beautiful texture, strawberry fruit and licorice. This is a larger than life Chambolle with exquisite acidity and a strongly muneral finish. It is Grand Cru in everything but name, and I was amazed at how much more forthcoming it was than 2 years ago. However, this may be just a passing phase before it clamps down again. Glad to catch it on a good day!
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2/15/2013 - BigJul Likes this wine: 92 Points
Les plus grands domaines de bourgogne selon la RVF: Un vin parfumé et complexe, sur les fruits rouges et noirs, alliant concentration, équilibre et classicisme. Très minéral. Tannins fondus, malgré sa jeunesse évidente. 92
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7/18/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Goodbye Dinner for Gabriel's Restaurant (Gabriel's - Highwood IL): I do not distinctly remember tasting this wine this night, but my friend Jeff insisted he poured some for me. Lo and behold, I actually wrote a tasting note on this wine, but alas can only read approximately every other word I wrote. So what I can decipher is that this has great spice, needs until at least 2020 to soften, and was very tight right now, somewhat backward.
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5/16/2012 - St Paul wrote: 95 Points
Full of packed red and black fruit on the nose. Deep and complex. Asian spices, violets, rapberry and almost a bit dusty. Delivering a fruit bomb in the mouth. Focused sensual fruit with an underlying power that is really impressive. Big 1er Cru. I say it is big as a Grand Cru. Not very typical Chambolle in style. It is is still a baby but what a sweet wonderful baby. I am happy to still have a couple more in the cellar. Will not open the next one before 2014 though. I love this.
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3/24/2012 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
HDH auction tasting at Tru (Chicago, IL): Yes. Epic nose. Plush red fruit, with some dusty notes. The nose is concentrated and intense. Great concentration and depth. Some earthy mushroom notes on the palate; there is lots of complexity here.
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11/10/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Miscellaneous Notes from France; 11/5/2011-11/11/2011 (Paris and Burgundy): Unbelievably deep robe. After an hour decant, huge for Chambolle but approachable due to the volume of red fruit. It combines a lush feel with a powerful attack that is driven by both bright acids and tannins that rise through the finish. Some sense of soil as well. This will never be known as a wine of finesse, but it has Grand Cru concentration and power. I trust long aging will result in a monumental wine but one that might never be picked out as a Chambolle because of its density.
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2/11/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points
La Paulée de New York: Vertical Tasting (Colicchio & Sons - New York NY): Vertical tasting, brief note. Ripe, mostly black fruit aromas with good floral support. Powerful and dense black cherry and blackberry flavors, with intense tannins and minerality. Needs plenty of time in the cellar.
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8/2/2008 - BradE wrote:
Stunningly good wine.
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