Charleston VII; 11/2/2022-11/6/2022 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): Every time I have Rousseau I have a feeling that I could understand why people like their Burgundy so much (even if I am not keen on the price tag). He seems to have figured out the elegance and purity of fruit which is really compelling. A bit more woodsy and secondary but to be expected in an almost 30 year wine. Special to get to drink.
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The 93 Rousseau CSJ was not good. My friend opened 2 bottles and left one that was undrinkable at home. The 2nd one wasn’t much better. Just tired and over the hill. Bottle wasn’t heat damaged that we could tell. The 2nd bottle was drinkable, but just very little fruit and not a moving wine. 85 points
The 1993 Rousseau Clos St Jacques shows a splendid nose of warm cherry, duck, a touch of warm earth but, like the 93 Chambertin, it’s on the plate that this positively explodes. A magnificent array of sweet and savory, fresh and umami unfolds, seeming to evolve minute by minute, akin to a melange of fresh cherry, cooked cherry, Muscovy duck, juniper, and cumin. The sapid yet weightless persistence is simply superb, dazzling. How often do you taste a really arresting wine? This is one of them. A hair behind the kingly Chambertin.
97-98 points
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Garnet in colour. A developed nose with lots of manure - which I loved! Strawberries. So much perfume with time. High acidity. Light to medium bodied, but added more weight with air. Fruits and oak in character. A long finish. Balanced and complex. In a perfect drinking window if you want to open, but it should keep for a while also.
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Wine Dinner at Atlas. No notes. Amazing experience/education in Burgundy (and others). Another knockout brought by J. Thank you for an amazing experience. What a treat. 94-95
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Although a disservice to this great wine by being placed alongside straight Chambertin and Bèze of the same vintage, this is still spectacular in its own right. Bright and fresh red cherries. Faint forest and terroir development and nuance but not on the level of the Chambertin. Light and lively, flirtatious although I’m not getting all of JK’s “Chambertin gone wild in that hot feminine way” here. Bright and fresh if slightly uptight. Courtesy of an Upper West Side Gentleman.
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Rousseau dinner at Jade Palace. Out of respect for the plot, vintage and other member's positive reviews, I will not score this bottle. In any case, this was way advanced, almost murky brown in colour, drinking almost like a 70s Burg. Oxidative nose, lots of sour plum, soy, herbs and a complete lack of freshness, acidity and structure you would expect from a good 1993. Palate was slightly better, with good meatiness and smoked meat, sour cherries, raisins and plums but again entirely not representative of what Rousseau could have achieved. Really disappointing to have such a poor poor bottle with such bad provenance.
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Christmas WIMPS - Burgundy I (La Trompette, Chiswick): Medium deep ruby/garnet. Nose shows ripe, pure red fruit, still quite youthful but with a distinct meaty/gamey edge. Medium full bodied, quite powerful but with vibrant acidity. Deep and long, although tannins are still a touch drying on the finish, suggesting this may yet benefit from a few more years. ****(1/2).
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Spice and red fruit on the nose. A lot of red plum on the palate and faint hints of the wood treatment. Palate is somewhat thin but still expressive. 92-93
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Bright red fruit, cherry, rose petals, some dark fruit and lovely spice on the nose. More dark fruit on the palate. Noticeable structure. Long finish with great grip. Very youthful.
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Phat Boy Dinner @ TheLedbury- clean fresh nose, showing sweet red fruits. Very smooth in the mouth and a great balance of acidity and fruits. 20 yrs on and I think the 93's are starting to weave together really well. This was a great pleasure to drink. A wine of finesse and strength
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Bobs annual wine weekend (New Haven and Guilford): Rousseau knocked it out of the ballpark in 1993 making some of his best wines ever. The was cleaner, bigger, bright and balanced. This has it all and is a baby 93 chambertin
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Drank at 15 east with OT and Sam. This bottle had all the hype of a prize fight in Vegas. Not the case. Either it was an improperly stored bottle or the was in a bad place. The color was great. But the nose was very funky almost stilton blue cheese/medicinal. In the mouth there was fruit but no power you would expect from Rousseau CSJ.
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Nose is more restrained than the '90. Slow to show. Takes time to reveal notes of earth and red fruit. Flowers. Spice. Palate is still tight...but soooo long. Beautiful acidity and purity of fruit. Stunning balance and weightlessness, but pales next to the '90 tonight. Needs time.
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1993 Rousseau Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St Jacques - Secondary aromas of sous bois and red fruits. Great backbone with tart acidity but enough fruit to balance. Great length. The longer it sat in the glass, the better it got. My wife preferred it over the 88. I think it can use more time, whereas the 88 is rockin now. 94 pts
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A burgundy lunch (La Trompette, Chiswick, London): The fourth time I've had this, and on each occasion I've been awed - pure, deep, infinitely nuanced, luminous - I can't describe the beauty of this wine
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Rousseau dinner (The Ledbury, London): Doesn't quite have the grandeur of the Chambertins, but this is again superbly poised, the fruit and spice in perfect balance
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Part of a flight with the chambertin and beze. All 3 were so young, displaying delicious, tart, red fruit. So hard to find fault with any of them except that they needed another 5-10 years..
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Powerful yet very elegant, fine tannins, great length. Beautiful wine. This is open for business but probably has even more to give over the next 10+ years.
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Poppoed and poured, drank over the following 4 hours. Dark ruby. Gorgeous, deep nose of spiced black cherry and sous bois. Focused and linear in the mouth, with a nice balance of acidity and tannins. Long, mouthcoating finish. Beautiful.
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Rousseau Clos St Jacques 1986 to 2006 (The Ledbury, London): This had all the qualities of the other wines - lightness, freshness, focus, pure red fruits, but with an extra element of authority and power, the wine tonight that is most obviously grand
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My dad drove a 67' Chevy II in his youth. Few took the car seriously from the looks and make. For my pop, all he concerned himself with, was how much horse power he could stuff under the tiny little body. It was a sleeper which competed with all the Big Boys. This wine, this evening was one in the same. At the start this showed solid aromatic beauty with a good palate presence and good structural balance. The real magic came 2.5 hours later as it expanded in the glass tenfold. It enveloped a bigger frame while balancing itself out into a stunning wine. As Thomas said, with air this stepped up to the level of its stable mates. With each of us having a little of each wine left in our glass as we rose from the table, this was the wine we all reached for a final sip of. Don't let that 1er Cru label fool you.. This is some serious juice...
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A Rousseau Dinner (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Powerful liquorice nose, some earthiness too, and on the palate there's the works, fruit, game, undergrowth, all coming in waves, and wrapped in velvet - young and vibrant and absolutely gorgeous
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Really awesome until it closed up, and it closed up *hard*. But for a while this was packed with everything. Savory black fruit, generous sweet aromatics, rich sap, and a powerful spine. Then it closes, and it's all spine.
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still tight with enough acid and balance to peak in 5 - 10 years, bottled was opened by mistake as it was mistaken for a 1997, arghhhhh ..... !! very very long lingering finish, very layered, complexity only starting to emerge.
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Opened for about an hour prior to drinking. Incredibly elegant throughout. Just a whisper of a wine, that slowly unwinds and reveals wonderful sappiness and class. Just starting to add some lushness. Very good now, stunning in 5 years or so.
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Annual DBGCBU: This was the third wine in a bracket which included two Rousseau Chambertin's (89/93) and was sadly very much out of it's depth. A little unfair to compare this with the other two but highlighted the significant difference between the two vineyards. Looked almost new world like and simple.A little surprising but really unfair to have included this wine in such a bracket.
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11/3/2022 - S1 Likes this wine:
Charleston Offlineorama VII; 11/2/2022-11/6/2022 (Various locations): Simply amazing. Dark cherry with incredible depth and length. Gamey meat. Soy, dark and hot spices.I love 93s and I love Rousseau—I couldn’t lose.
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11/3/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Charleston VII; 11/2/2022-11/6/2022 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): Every time I have Rousseau I have a feeling that I could understand why people like their Burgundy so much (even if I am not keen on the price tag). He seems to have figured out the elegance and purity of fruit which is really compelling. A bit more woodsy and secondary but to be expected in an almost 30 year wine. Special to get to drink.
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5/10/2022 - MonsterTruck Does not like this wine: 85 Points
The 93 Rousseau CSJ was not good. My friend opened 2 bottles and left one that was undrinkable at home. The 2nd one wasn’t much better. Just tired and over the hill. Bottle wasn’t heat damaged that we could tell. The 2nd bottle was drinkable, but just very little fruit and not a moving wine. 85 points
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12/25/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 97 Points
The 1993 Rousseau Clos St Jacques shows a splendid nose of warm cherry, duck, a touch of warm earth but, like the 93 Chambertin, it’s on the plate that this positively explodes. A magnificent array of sweet and savory, fresh and umami unfolds, seeming to evolve minute by minute, akin to a melange of fresh cherry, cooked cherry, Muscovy duck, juniper, and cumin. The sapid yet weightless persistence is simply superb, dazzling. How often do you taste a really arresting wine? This is one of them. A hair behind the kingly Chambertin.
97-98 points
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9/4/2021 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
Fully resolved with lifted dried flower aromatics. Quite clean, but not quite the precision and intensity of 1990 a few days ago.
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3/29/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
A cleaner and crisper bottle than the '93 can sometimes show. Very good.
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12/1/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Not the most complex bottle of this wine, but nicely mature. 93-94
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5/9/2020 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 97 Points
Garnet in colour. A developed nose with lots of manure - which I loved! Strawberries. So much perfume with time. High acidity. Light to medium bodied, but added more weight with air. Fruits and oak in character. A long finish. Balanced and complex. In a perfect drinking window if you want to open, but it should keep for a while also.
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9/3/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very good. Clean and complex. 94-95
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4/18/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Brooding. Dark spice bouquet. Good energy, long finish. Upside from here.
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11/28/2018 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wine Dinner at Atlas. No notes. Amazing experience/education in Burgundy (and others). Another knockout brought by J. Thank you for an amazing experience. What a treat. 94-95
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11/27/2018 - Alex G. wrote:
Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California - Dujac, PYCM, Lafon, Carillon, Niellon, Lafite, Latour, Mayacamas, Montelena, Mondavi, and more: I feel like I have to recuse myself from tasting notes on CSJ, I never "got" it. This has a weird aroma and wasn't ringing my bells, happily the palate was better than the aroma. Dense, more masculine style.
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11/13/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 95 Points
Although a disservice to this great wine by being placed alongside straight Chambertin and Bèze of the same vintage, this is still spectacular in its own right. Bright and fresh red cherries. Faint forest and terroir development and nuance but not on the level of the Chambertin. Light and lively, flirtatious although I’m not getting all of JK’s “Chambertin gone wild in that hot feminine way” here. Bright and fresh if slightly uptight. Courtesy of an Upper West Side Gentleman.
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11/13/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This is a deep, savoury, rich and powerful bottle of wine but there is far too much equine action that takes away the enjoyment.
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2/19/2017 - clayfu wrote:
Night two: No more rain but a lot more Rousseau - a story of Fred's birthday in Orange County (J Zhou): totally outclassed the 93 beze next to it tonight. Gorgeous opulent round sweet fruit, full of flavor but its effortless and balanced on the palate. In the right spot and I'd suggest drinking now for maximum pleasure.
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4/28/2016 - justburg wrote:
Rousseau dinner at Jade Palace. Out of respect for the plot, vintage and other member's positive reviews, I will not score this bottle. In any case, this was way advanced, almost murky brown in colour, drinking almost like a 70s Burg. Oxidative nose, lots of sour plum, soy, herbs and a complete lack of freshness, acidity and structure you would expect from a good 1993. Palate was slightly better, with good meatiness and smoked meat, sour cherries, raisins and plums but again entirely not representative of what Rousseau could have achieved. Really disappointing to have such a poor poor bottle with such bad provenance.
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12/15/2015 - Paul D wrote:
Christmas WIMPS - Burgundy I (La Trompette, Chiswick): Medium deep ruby/garnet. Nose shows ripe, pure red fruit, still quite youthful but with a distinct meaty/gamey edge. Medium full bodied, quite powerful but with vibrant acidity. Deep and long, although tannins are still a touch drying on the finish, suggesting this may yet benefit from a few more years. ****(1/2).
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12/2/2015 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 92 Points
Spice and red fruit on the nose. A lot of red plum on the palate and faint hints of the wood treatment. Palate is somewhat thin but still expressive. 92-93
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11/11/2014 - BradE wrote:
Rock solid, and drank above expectations. Definitely a wine to seek out.
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11/9/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 95 Points
Bright red fruit, cherry, rose petals, some dark fruit and lovely spice on the nose. More dark fruit on the palate. Noticeable structure. Long finish with great grip. Very youthful.
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3/27/2014 - Wine Expresso Likes this wine: 95 Points
The lesson is about opening this wine at least 3-4 hours before serving. It will keep improving beyond one's estimate.
Ranked no.6 in the vertical Rousseau 86,90,91,93,96 and Noellat 90 Malconsorts and 89 RSV.
But became top 3 after another hour. Solid Wine.
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2/22/2014 - jhngo Likes this wine: 95 Points
drinking beautifully. cherry nose, perfect balance of fruit tannins in a good place and holding up well. no signs of age.
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1/28/2014 - reichken wrote: 95 Points
Phat Boy Dinner @ TheLedbury- clean fresh nose, showing sweet red fruits. Very smooth in the mouth and a great balance of acidity and fruits. 20 yrs on and I think the 93's are starting to weave together really well. This was a great pleasure to drink. A wine of finesse and strength
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3/23/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 98 Points
Bobs annual wine weekend (New Haven and Guilford): Rousseau knocked it out of the ballpark in 1993 making some of his best wines ever. The was cleaner, bigger, bright and balanced. This has it all and is a baby 93 chambertin
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3/20/2013 - esburgundy Does not like this wine: 89 Points
Drank at 15 east with OT and Sam. This bottle had all the hype of a prize fight in Vegas. Not the case. Either it was an improperly stored bottle or the was in a bad place. The color was great. But the nose was very funky almost stilton blue cheese/medicinal. In the mouth there was fruit but no power you would expect from Rousseau CSJ.
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5/20/2012 - decaturwinedude wrote: 94 Points
Nose is more restrained than the '90. Slow to show. Takes time to reveal notes of earth and red fruit. Flowers. Spice. Palate is still tight...but soooo long. Beautiful acidity and purity of fruit. Stunning balance and weightlessness, but pales next to the '90 tonight. Needs time.
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10/3/2011 - rnellans wrote: 94 Points
1993 Rousseau Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St Jacques - Secondary aromas of sous bois and red fruits. Great backbone with tart acidity but enough fruit to balance. Great length. The longer it sat in the glass, the better it got. My wife preferred it over the 88. I think it can use more time, whereas the 88 is rockin now. 94 pts
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8/15/2011 - Rupert wrote:
A burgundy lunch (La Trompette, Chiswick, London): The fourth time I've had this, and on each occasion I've been awed - pure, deep, infinitely nuanced, luminous - I can't describe the beauty of this wine
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3/10/2011 - Rupert wrote: 96 Points
Rousseau dinner (The Ledbury, London): Doesn't quite have the grandeur of the Chambertins, but this is again superbly poised, the fruit and spice in perfect balance
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3/10/2011 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Part of a flight with the chambertin and beze. All 3 were so young, displaying delicious, tart, red fruit. So hard to find fault with any of them except that they needed another 5-10 years..
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11/15/2010 - Captain Haddock Likes this wine: 95 Points
Powerful yet very elegant, fine tannins, great length. Beautiful wine. This is open for business but probably has even more to give over the next 10+ years.
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1/16/2010 - jlemerond wrote: 94 Points
Poppoed and poured, drank over the following 4 hours. Dark ruby. Gorgeous, deep nose of spiced black cherry and sous bois. Focused and linear in the mouth, with a nice balance of acidity and tannins. Long, mouthcoating finish. Beautiful.
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11/10/2009 - Rupert wrote: 95 Points
Rousseau Clos St Jacques 1986 to 2006 (The Ledbury, London): This had all the qualities of the other wines - lightness, freshness, focus, pure red fruits, but with an extra element of authority and power, the wine tonight that is most obviously grand
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8/18/2009 - jamiekutch wrote:
My dad drove a 67' Chevy II in his youth. Few took the car seriously from the looks and make. For my pop, all he concerned himself with, was how much horse power he could stuff under the tiny little body. It was a sleeper which competed with all the Big Boys. This wine, this evening was one in the same. At the start this showed solid aromatic beauty with a good palate presence and good structural balance. The real magic came 2.5 hours later as it expanded in the glass tenfold. It enveloped a bigger frame while balancing itself out into a stunning wine. As Thomas said, with air this stepped up to the level of its stable mates. With each of us having a little of each wine left in our glass as we rose from the table, this was the wine we all reached for a final sip of. Don't let that 1er Cru label fool you.. This is some serious juice...
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12/1/2008 - Rupert wrote: 95 Points
A Rousseau Dinner (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Powerful liquorice nose, some earthiness too, and on the palate there's the works, fruit, game, undergrowth, all coming in waves, and wrapped in velvet - young and vibrant and absolutely gorgeous
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6/22/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points
Really awesome until it closed up, and it closed up *hard*. But for a while this was packed with everything. Savory black fruit, generous sweet aromatics, rich sap, and a powerful spine. Then it closes, and it's all spine.
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3/24/2008 - DJenkins wrote: 96 Points
Simply gorgeous. Drinking perfectly now but no rush at all
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12/31/2007 - bunhiong wrote: 93 Points
still tight with enough acid and balance to peak in 5 - 10 years, bottled was opened by mistake as it was mistaken for a 1997, arghhhhh ..... !! very very long lingering finish, very layered, complexity only starting to emerge.
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12/15/2007 - winenutnyc wrote:
Opened for about an hour prior to drinking. Incredibly elegant throughout. Just a whisper of a wine, that slowly unwinds and reveals wonderful sappiness and class. Just starting to add some lushness. Very good now, stunning in 5 years or so.
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7/9/2007 - AJ72 wrote: 89 Points
Annual DBGCBU: This was the third wine in a bracket which included two Rousseau Chambertin's (89/93) and was sadly very much out of it's depth. A little unfair to compare this with the other two but highlighted the significant difference between the two vineyards. Looked almost new world like and simple.A little surprising but really unfair to have included this wine in such a bracket.
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