Dinner with RC & friends at China Tang (China Tang, Hong Kong): Deep and vibrant ruby color. On the nose, beautiful delicate notes of blackberry and dark plum, with hints of fresh cut hay and maybe even a little tar. Darker in character than the Chambolle opened side by side. But oh so fine in every way -- fruit is intense and focused, yet dances lightly on the palate; tannins have a youthful structure, but are fine as silk. A pleasure to drink.
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A bit shy in the start but after 3 hours decanting the wine was singing. The intensity of Emmanuel Rouget wines and the more green herbaceous style of the vintage 2006 really come together in this bottle.
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Showing beautfully, a burst of cinnamon spice and lucsious red plum and raspberry fruit, has you at first sniff and swirl. Rich and rounded the fruit aromas frame ginger and cocoa, depth. Savor this sweet and delicious beauty with scents of the finest and most tender roast meat at the heart of the enchanting and enveloping garden floral bouquet.
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Medium dark red; somewhat neutral nose with sweet undertones and light expression; light attack, refined, followed with nice long sweetness which goes on; really inviting; excellent
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Served blind, I thought this was an '09 when it came across as fruity, or '03 when it came across as somewhat candied. It was hard to decipher the appelation as well, got very little suggesting Vosne-Romanee.
In the final analysis, the oak is overwhelming the wine at this stage. Give it time to integrate, and someday we may have something here that resembles an Echezeaux.
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The 2006 vintages has clearly not been ready for drinking until now and it was with a certain reservation we drank this classy wine from Rouget. It did deliver! - smooth and rather elegant with a bit edge which did not disturb but on the contrary made the wine more complex. It can easily cellar many years more but it did not feel wrong to open it now. The tasting note was dominated by dark fruit and a bit of earthiness which will develop more in the coming years.
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Brooding, deep and rustic nose, but combining this with great finesse and transparency. Notes of forest floor, dark berries, some violets. On the palate it has a sweet and lucsious attack, concentrated full-bodied mid palate and a refreshing, acidity driven finish with distinct, but fully mature tannins. Great wine to drink now, preferably with food as it can withstand a lot. Kept fine for two days, so many years left due to high tannic contant (typical 2006 for me). Absolutely the best 2006 I've had so far.
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Nicely complex notes, especially on the nose with boysenberry, spice and some minerals, but what's holding it back are angular tannins that interfere with the finish. Got a little better, but not much over 2-3 hours. I could still appreciate the quality of fruit, it just needs to resolve this...and judging by others reviews it might not be widespread
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Casual Burg Dinner with Friends (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Six months ago this was jammy and uninteresting. Tonight it was balanced, sophisticated and incredibly nuanced. Obviously a much better bottle, much more consistent with what i expect from Rouget. My WOTN, most others agreed.
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Friday after Thanksgiving (FAT) - Part 1 - Burgundy 2006 (Palm Beach Gardens FL): Open 2 hours when first tasted. Lush and fat red fruit that is still so primary and comes across as jammy. Moderate spice at best. Elegant tannins, but clearly front-and-center. New oak still protrudes a bit. This needs lots of time and was frankly not even close to the quality of the Cros Parantoux. Tasted again near the end of the evening with similar results.
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Ceres Table (Chicago): I enjoyed this much more than the last bottle. This seemed more excited and vibrant tonight but the rhubarb, red fruit, roses, spice and mushrooms were all still at play.
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Nose: rich, red and sumptuous. Quite overt and powerful. Palate: Quite rich and concentrated but not particularly refined. Initially a bit grippy on opening, it subdued after a while in the carafe. Nevertheless, this bottle lacked a little finesse and the red fruits dominant (raspberry especially) palate did not linger for long. We both much preferred a 2008 Arnoux-Lachaux Echezaux that we had a few nights earlier (which had darker and more complex fruits, and was much more refined).
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Interesting nose of red flowers, rhubarb, spice and earth. Nicely textured on the palate. Elegant with great detail. A bit tight but very pretty. Did not have the 'wow' factor of the 09.
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i looked forward to popp an emanuel rouget echezeaux but it came with a dissapointment. poured in the glass and took a zip;it diddn't taste very well, it was ok but not great and there was little fruit and no after taste so i think it was closed or maybe a bad bottle of echezeaux!''
so for now 75 points and ill wait to see your comments on this one!
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Popped and poured. Dark red/black fruit, cranberry and blackberry. Blue fruit and earth too. Wood spice and stemmy notes. Firm fruit on the palate, great deal of minerality. Medium body. Finish seemed a bit short. Definitely needs time to come around.
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The first sniff conjures up images of plush, purple velvet. This is a delicious sweet and lush wine that’s laden with enticing floral notes. It is creamy with good volume and outstanding length.
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There was a case of this present at the dinner it was served, and thank goodness for that: there were THREE corked bottles in a row. I certainly hope this was a fluke, but wow was that frustrating. Anyway, the fourth bottle was quite pleasant. There's good fruit here, but I felt the wine was somewhat muted in its youthful state, and even after hours in the glass it hadn't budged much. That said, the minerality, fruit, and overall balance were noteworthy. I'd be curious to revisit this in 10 years.
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Some Musignys with Friends (Chicago IL): Deep maroon color. More opulent aromatics than the Georges Jayer Echezeaux served alongside. Ripe dark berry and a bit of underbrush all framed by rich wood spice. Great mouthfeel; ripe fruit, mineral core, great acidity; an all around fantastic showing with a lengthy finish.
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Saturday Tasting Group (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (Northbrook, IL)): Wonderfully structured and feminine spicy racy bottling from this fantastic vineyard. A little smoke with underlying cranberry and tart cherry. Lots of saturated berry and mushroom essence. Fantastic length and layered fleshy fruit. Wonderful. Expressive of its terroir unlike that most can achieve. Undoubtably a Grand Cru with its purity, complexity, and opulent mouth feel.
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Rouget 2006 (The Wine Club, San Francisco): Beautifully deep color but transparent. All chocolate and torrefaction on the nose. Lusher, deeper, rounder, and a tad more sweet than the rest of the wines with a nice underpinning of acidity-biggest wine without question. Gentle black fruit without any tartness. Potentially outstanding, although I prefer the Beauxmonts for its balance, spice, and detail.
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Beautiful dark color with a purple hue. Very reductive at first and not showing too much. After a few hours in the glass red and blue fruit aromas started to come emerge with a bit of earth and toasty wood spice. Very lush on the palate with some nice spice and a bit of roasted game. Some grip, but not too tannic.
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1/14/2024 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 91 Points
A bit masked by Bizot and Naudin's echezeaux during the meal. I guess I could not make a correct judgement under such circumstances.
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2/3/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
A really elegant and lovely display of dark fruit, rhubarb, spice and floral notes. A bit restrained but very nice.
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1/12/2023 - ilee Likes this wine: 97 Points
Dinner with RC & friends at China Tang (China Tang, Hong Kong): Deep and vibrant ruby color. On the nose, beautiful delicate notes of blackberry and dark plum, with hints of fresh cut hay and maybe even a little tar. Darker in character than the Chambolle opened side by side. But oh so fine in every way -- fruit is intense and focused, yet dances lightly on the palate; tannins have a youthful structure, but are fine as silk. A pleasure to drink.
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11/6/2022 - Hmmgodstil Likes this wine: 96 Points
A bit shy in the start but after 3 hours decanting the wine was singing. The intensity of Emmanuel Rouget wines and the more green herbaceous style of the vintage 2006 really come together in this bottle.
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9/13/2021 - gsquireh Likes this wine: 96 Points
Showing beautfully, a burst of cinnamon spice and lucsious red plum and raspberry fruit, has you at first sniff and swirl. Rich and rounded the fruit aromas frame ginger and cocoa, depth. Savor this sweet and delicious beauty with scents of the finest and most tender roast meat at the heart of the enchanting and enveloping garden floral bouquet.
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5/21/2020 - Miceri Likes this wine: 98 Points
Medium dark red; somewhat neutral nose with sweet undertones and light expression; light attack, refined, followed with nice long sweetness which goes on; really inviting; excellent
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3/20/2020 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Delicious tonight
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9/29/2017 - Alex G. wrote:
Served blind, I thought this was an '09 when it came across as fruity, or '03 when it came across as somewhat candied. It was hard to decipher the appelation as well, got very little suggesting Vosne-Romanee.
In the final analysis, the oak is overwhelming the wine at this stage. Give it time to integrate, and someday we may have something here that resembles an Echezeaux.
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7/5/2017 - Bourgognefreak Likes this wine: 94 Points
The 2006 vintages has clearly not been ready for drinking until now and it was with a certain reservation we drank this classy wine from Rouget.
It did deliver! - smooth and rather elegant with a bit edge which did not disturb but on the contrary made the wine more complex.
It can easily cellar many years more but it did not feel wrong to open it now.
The tasting note was dominated by dark fruit and a bit of earthiness which will develop more in the coming years.
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6/30/2017 - UTPK wrote:
Brooding, deep and rustic nose, but combining this with great finesse and transparency. Notes of forest floor, dark berries, some violets. On the palate it has a sweet and lucsious attack, concentrated full-bodied mid palate and a refreshing, acidity driven finish with distinct, but fully mature tannins. Great wine to drink now, preferably with food as it can withstand a lot. Kept fine for two days, so many years left due to high tannic contant (typical 2006 for me). Absolutely the best 2006 I've had so far.
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4/9/2017 - kr522 wrote: 91 Points
Nicely complex notes, especially on the nose with boysenberry, spice and some minerals, but what's holding it back are angular tannins that interfere with the finish. Got a little better, but not much over 2-3 hours. I could still appreciate the quality of fruit, it just needs to resolve this...and judging by others reviews it might not be widespread
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8/29/2016 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Another superb showing.
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7/7/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Casual Burg Dinner with Friends (The Bristol - Chicago IL): Six months ago this was jammy and uninteresting. Tonight it was balanced, sophisticated and incredibly nuanced. Obviously a much better bottle, much more consistent with what i expect from Rouget. My WOTN, most others agreed.
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3/26/2016 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Another great bottle.
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11/27/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Friday after Thanksgiving (FAT) - Part 1 - Burgundy 2006 (Palm Beach Gardens FL): Open 2 hours when first tasted. Lush and fat red fruit that is still so primary and comes across as jammy. Moderate spice at best. Elegant tannins, but clearly front-and-center. New oak still protrudes a bit. This needs lots of time and was frankly not even close to the quality of the Cros Parantoux. Tasted again near the end of the evening with similar results.
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9/7/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points
Ceres Table (Chicago): I enjoyed this much more than the last bottle. This seemed more excited and vibrant tonight but the rhubarb, red fruit, roses, spice and mushrooms were all still at play.
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5/22/2014 - Greg Munyard wrote: 88 Points
Nose: rich, red and sumptuous. Quite overt and powerful.
Palate: Quite rich and concentrated but not particularly refined. Initially a bit grippy on opening, it subdued after a while in the carafe. Nevertheless, this bottle lacked a little finesse and the red fruits dominant (raspberry especially) palate did not linger for long. We both much preferred a 2008 Arnoux-Lachaux Echezaux that we had a few nights earlier (which had darker and more complex fruits, and was much more refined).
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5/20/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 91 Points
Interesting nose of red flowers, rhubarb, spice and earth. Nicely textured on the palate. Elegant with great detail. A bit tight but very pretty. Did not have the 'wow' factor of the 09.
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5/26/2013 - Lord Rayas wrote: 90 Points
龍哥 dinner (潮庭): still a baby with only primary flavours. hard to tell, but I wouldn't touch it for at least 3-4 years.
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12/28/2011 - dutchwinelover wrote: 75 Points
i looked forward to popp an emanuel rouget echezeaux but it came with a dissapointment.
poured in the glass and took a zip;it diddn't taste very well, it was ok but not great and there was little fruit and no after taste so i think it was closed or maybe a bad bottle of echezeaux!''
so for now 75 points and ill wait to see your comments on this one!
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8/17/2011 - MatthewF wrote:
Popped and poured. Dark red/black fruit, cranberry and blackberry. Blue fruit and earth too. Wood spice and stemmy notes. Firm fruit on the palate, great deal of minerality. Medium body. Finish seemed a bit short. Definitely needs time to come around.
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7/16/2011 - danielk168 wrote: 90 Points
Still very young, good aromtaics but not plesant to drink yet. But birthday boy wants to open, so..........
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11/9/2010 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
The first sniff conjures up images of plush, purple velvet. This is a delicious sweet and lush wine that’s laden with enticing floral notes. It is creamy with good volume and outstanding length.
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4/10/2010 - Alex G. wrote:
There was a case of this present at the dinner it was served, and thank goodness for that: there were THREE corked bottles in a row. I certainly hope this was a fluke, but wow was that frustrating. Anyway, the fourth bottle was quite pleasant. There's good fruit here, but I felt the wine was somewhat muted in its youthful state, and even after hours in the glass it hadn't budged much. That said, the minerality, fruit, and overall balance were noteworthy. I'd be curious to revisit this in 10 years.
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9/9/2009 - MatthewF wrote:
Some Musignys with Friends (Chicago IL): Deep maroon color. More opulent aromatics than the Georges Jayer Echezeaux served alongside. Ripe dark berry and a bit of underbrush all framed by rich wood spice. Great mouthfeel; ripe fruit, mineral core, great acidity; an all around fantastic showing with a lengthy finish.
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9/5/2009 - beezer6 wrote: 94 Points
Saturday Tasting Group (Knightsbridge Wine Shop (Northbrook, IL)): Wonderfully structured and feminine spicy racy bottling from this fantastic vineyard.
A little smoke with underlying cranberry and tart cherry.
Lots of saturated berry and mushroom essence. Fantastic length and layered fleshy fruit.
Wonderful. Expressive of its terroir unlike that most can achieve.
Undoubtably a Grand Cru with its purity, complexity, and opulent mouth feel.
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8/29/2009 - drwine2001 wrote:
Rouget 2006 (The Wine Club, San Francisco): Beautifully deep color but transparent. All chocolate and torrefaction on the nose. Lusher, deeper, rounder, and a tad more sweet than the rest of the wines with a nice underpinning of acidity-biggest wine without question. Gentle black fruit without any tartness. Potentially outstanding, although I prefer the Beauxmonts for its balance, spice, and detail.
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6/20/2009 - psmith wrote:
Ripe, earthy wine. Young, big wine - compacted and forward. Dark strawberry fruit. Uncharacteristically grainy, rough tannins. Impressive young wine.
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6/20/2009 - MatthewF wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful dark color with a purple hue. Very reductive at first and not showing too much. After a few hours in the glass red and blue fruit aromas started to come emerge with a bit of earth and toasty wood spice. Very lush on the palate with some nice spice and a bit of roasted game. Some grip, but not too tannic.
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