Tasted blind and guessed correctly that this was a 1999, as it showed the vintage’s fruit profile and tannins. Still young though the tannins are less forbidding and are buffered by the abundant and delicious fruit to the extent that this is quite enjoyable, especially with food. Thank you, Bill.
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Cloudy unfiltered looking robe. Some moderate browning on the edges. Nose of spice, dusty blackberry and blueberry, quite fresh. Still quite structured with some tannin into the finish.
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Relatively muted on the nose, sour cherries, plums, earth, fresh minty minerality. With air, great depth. Clearly superior to the Cazetiers alongside. Lovely poise on the palate: rich yet elegant. A touch acidic on the finish. But gorgeous.
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Fabulous wine. Tasted blind, and I was surprised to see a 1999 show this well, and even more surprised that this was the Rousseau CdR. Approachable, but still a little tight.
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Earthy spices on the nose that later shows the most pure red fruit. Really deep and structured wine that's drinking fantastic right now. Some oak sticks out on the midpalate, but besides that, this was a perfectly elegant showing.
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Every time a CDLR from Rousseau is served to me blind, I seems to always end up preferring it to his more famed wines. This was a real delight. Clear to medium ruby. Such a savoury nose. Some pop pouri. Sweet strawberries and raspberries.
From BV
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My last bottle opened 5 hours prior consumption, great smell, smoky, forest floor, cherry, red cassis, up front and sleek on the palate, so ready for business with a decant, some spice, really deep and multilayered well structured, fresh cherry fruit, the pure lingering finish, extraordinary bottle, will keep this condition surely for a decade+ more, ***(*-*****)
A very mineral wine with delicious red and black fruits and a hint a suggestion of meat sneaking into the aroma and flavour profiles. Exquisite balance, great perfume and gorgeously sweet fruit.
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Shy nose some earthiness and undergrowth. Palate subtle, nuanced blackcurrant and black cherry in perfect balance with tannins, each sip a holiday! The great contradiction of elegance and power in equal measure in every mouthful. Very long black fruit aftertaste. The best wine we had in years. Incredible to believe a wine can be this good. Drinking perfectly now
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Aromatic nose of asian spice, hoisan, dark red and black berries, a bit of forest floor, super silky, seamless start to finish, amazing wine. But overpowered by the duck. At Spago
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Theme: MSD Grand Crus Powerful, rustic, heavy at first but mellow down later. Sweet ripe cherry. Quite seamless but getting tighter, powerful. Not ready.
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Lots of bright red cherry on the nose but also some spice. This is more silken and resolved than than the 02. At the end of the night the acidity and oak comes to the forefront and throws it a bit off balance. Otherwise a wonderful wine.
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Musique & Vin Festival BYO Dinner with Musicians (1243 Bourgogne Society - Beaune): Small glass, brief note. Red cherry and berry with spice hints. Good+ length and weight with very good balance. Certainly very charming, but I Mike expect more from Rousseau in this great vintage, but alas, that is often the story with this cuvée.
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Bright red in colour. Quite rich on the nose. Strawberry notes. Great intensity on the palate. Bit of heat on the finish. Great persistence.
Probably higher controversial, but I enjoyed the 08 of this wine I had earlier in the week more. Perhaps just 99 still too tight. Perhaps a reflection of the hard work the domaine has put into this cuvée?
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Rousseau Dinner (Vaucluse): Expressive nose, leathery red berry fruit with some scorched earth and rustic tones. Cool menthol and eucalyptus as well. Big on the palate with nice development. Excellent balance and structure. Tannins still slightly green.
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A beautiful, refined CDLR with deep cherry fruit and a medium-body. Silky and lacy and still quite young as the finish seemed to be holding something back. Still lacking the soul and vigor of the '95 Lignier tasted alongside.
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Dark cherry and blueberry aromas with a licorice backnose. Still young on the palate. Fine tannins, good acid, but lacks heft across the midpalate. Some upside here. Opened one hour prior to consuming.
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Medium ruby with a touch of clouding. Beautiful wafting bouquet of fully ripe red cherry and cool menthol. Good damp underbrush, drying cranberry, and tea leaves. Explosive red berry fruit on the palate but still extremely elegant and silky. Hedonistic drinking. Tannins totally integrated. Incredible minerality with acrylics and slate. Amazing mix of soily dried berries and tingling minerals. Fresh ground coffee after some air time. Far superior to a 1993 opened a week or so ago. This was really great.
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Medium red in color, nose of fresh dark red cherries, palate is ripe and rounded with good energy and balance yet I think a tad simple as depth is lacking. A decent drink but perhaps not quite at the same level as 99 Lignier, Dujac or Ponsot.
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Fresh red cherries, round and delicious if a bit obvious and lacking serious complexity. Very ready now and the fruit is just lovely so it's hard to knock this wine for pure pleasure.
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La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Poured next to the 02, and both were outstanding, and quite similar. Super pure, ripe raspberries and spice, with the 02 just a little riper and fresher and the 99 a tad redder in character and more integrated. But they were clearly variations on the same theme, and both have an incredible textural refinement with lush, super-silky tannins. Both were an absolute joy and my co-WOTNs.
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Fully mature, but still lively, with concentrated, complex fruit and well-developed secondary flavours of mushroom and sous bois; very long on the finish. An excellent wine.
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This wine showed very well up against a solid bracket of CdlR from Dujac and Ponsot last year and last night in isolation it was terrific. There was just a faint whiff of compost to the aroma showing that the wine was beginning to develop but it is still very fresh and youthful. There are cherry and blueberry fruits and an engaging thread of flora. It is silky in the mouth with good depth and lovely savoury nuance. Length is very persistent and proportion perfect.
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Medium red colour, not showing any brown at this stage. The nose is fragrant and piercing, with cherry and raspberry fruit. The palate is rich, with ripe fruit and well-developed secondary flavours, and a long, lingering finish. This is drinking very well now, but should keep and perhaps continue to develop for a while.
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Fairly deep colour; a lively nose of raspberry and cherry; good concentration on the palate, mature but still fresh and lively, with secondary flavours developing, and good length. A good example, which is drinking very well now. I don't see this improving.
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Another outstanding showing for this wine. This bottle shows a combination of youthful elements and maturity. The bouquet offers notes of black cherry, plum, spice, earth, bark and floral notes that are detailed and elegant. The color is a slightly tarnished medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate shows complexity and nuance with a medium to long finish. The is outstanding now and should continue to drink well for many years.
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Good colour and density. Spicy and earthy with nice floral nuance. It has nice depth of flavour and proportion and is a wine that has plenty of material on which to age upon over a long period of time.
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Superb clarity and fruit. While many '99s are still a bit awkwardly young and in need of more age, this wine was ready to go. A real lightness on the palate and some good zippy acidity to keep the ripe fruit in check. I'm sure this will get better with time but there is no shame in drinking it now.
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HDH Auction Notes (Tru - Chicago, IL): Took some time to blossom, but air revealed a pristine core of red fruits, earth, and some barnyard. The fruit on the palate is expectedly rigid, but classy, and deep. Loved the mouthfeel on this...silky, smooth, resolved tannins. Gorgeous, with a lot of life.
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Fine, fragrant nose; attractive, red fruit flavours (strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant); very smooth and elegant but with some tannin still on the finish which becomes more evident with time. Potentially very fine, but needs time.
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To some extent it seemed like the wrong timing on this bottle -- it seemed caught between its youthful exuberance and older age. Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing because its multiple dimensions were fascinating over the course of the evening. Hints of secondary components along with increased power and strength and a pronounced earthy component came through in the last 1/3 or so of the bottle. Nice fruit throughout, and excellent balance. If I had another, I'd wait 5 years or more.
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This wine displays a wonderful combination of maturity and youthfulness. This is aging as (or better than) expected. The aromatics offer a complex, detailed blend of black cherry, plum, spice, earth, mocha and floral notes. The color remains a youthful medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate provides balance, depth and lengthy finish. This is a complete wine that is at or around maturity. This is not likely to improve with additional bottle age, but with this showing, the should continue to drink well for many years.
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Scott and Kate's din din -- Stupendous beauty. Mind boggling freshness and fruitiness for 12 years old. Still brilliant dark in color, on the nose a kaleidescope -- glaceed dark fruit meets candied black pepper meets mocha meets beef consommé (yes!). Lots of lovely ripe fruit on the palate -- perfectly ripe, heady, floral plum leads. Sexy oak there as well, but not obtrusive (mocha, coconut notes). Like a coconut-infused plum/raspberry glacee. Lavender and pollen notes swirl in and out, and a touch of foresty pine/fresh scents. Masterful.
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Lovely mature burgundy. Getting into the secondary flavors but still yummy, rich fruit. Nose is earthy but no hint of funk. Wonderful mouth feel. Vibrant but no hard edges. I agree that there is plenty of life in this wine, but I see no reason to wait to open additional bottles. And I did not decant. This was great right out of the bottle, though it certainly evolved after opening. A wonderful grand cru Burgundy experience.
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I had a little sip when I first opened it - sweet strawberry pinot, absolutely lovely, but a couple of hours later at the restaurant it had completely lost its mojo - dull, flat, disappointing
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Intense, raspberry nose. The colour is light to medium intensity and pale at the edges. The palate is just about mature, rather sweet, with deep, red fruit flavours, good balance and length. It developed and intensified in the glass, and it probably the best Rousseau Clos de la Roche I have had. It still has plenty of life ahead of it.
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Drink along with Ponsot CDLR VV 1999, so different in style, A.Rousseau CDLR shows a new world full-toasted oak at the start. When time passed by, it's getting more redfruit, roses with the easy delicious Burg and becomes quite modern-classic after 3.30 hours. The aftertaste is good and long enough to get 91-92/100.
Ponsot makes Clos de la Roche as a top wine. If A.Rousseau does the same, maybe it's better than this. Anyway, this is wine....That's why ?
IMO, I always love CDLR wine especially from Hubert Lignier so I must say that A.Rousseau's CDLR is equal or better than Clos St. Jacques.
Grand Cru is Grand Cru !!!
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Very pure - I'd have said Gevrey in style, darker and less sweet than a typical Rousseau, some earth and undergrowth, red fruits, silky texture - fully ready in my book
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At La Toque. A very nice showing. By no means a blockbuster wine, but amazing for its purity and definition. Medium ruby red with no sediment or haze. The nose was initially pretty restrained upon opening, but blossomed in the glass. Great minerality intertwined with red fruit. Perfectly balanced, this was enjoyable now, but obviously has a long life ahead of it.
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L’Ecusson: Lite, elegant cherry, lite soy; silky as hell; feminine and seductive; super elegant w/structure; great expnasive mth, earth notes. Beautiful, & a bitr undescribable.
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Nice notes on the nose with strawberry and darker fruit present. To taste, this wine tasted way young to me. The wine fell apart within an hour and I get barely access any fruit at all. Very tight and closed down. We left half of the bottle. No improvement upon tasting the next day. The nose had faded to a glimmer of what it had been, even after an hour in the glass.
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7/2/2023 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tasted blind and guessed correctly that this was a 1999, as it showed the vintage’s fruit profile and tannins. Still young though the tannins are less forbidding and are buffered by the abundant and delicious fruit to the extent that this is quite enjoyable, especially with food. Thank you, Bill.
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9/26/2022 - bbq_grandcru Likes this wine: 92 Points
Cloudy unfiltered looking robe. Some moderate browning on the edges. Nose of spice, dusty blackberry and blueberry, quite fresh. Still quite structured with some tannin into the finish.
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9/14/2022 - jamesabdavis wrote:
Relatively muted on the nose, sour cherries, plums, earth, fresh minty minerality. With air, great depth. Clearly superior to the Cazetiers alongside.
Lovely poise on the palate: rich yet elegant.
A touch acidic on the finish. But gorgeous.
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10/5/2021 - blacktruffle Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fabulous wine. Tasted blind, and I was surprised to see a 1999 show this well, and even more surprised that this was the Rousseau CdR. Approachable, but still a little tight.
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7/20/2021 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 95 Points
Earthy spices on the nose that later shows the most pure red fruit. Really deep and structured wine that's drinking fantastic right now. Some oak sticks out on the midpalate, but besides that, this was a perfectly elegant showing.
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8/21/2020 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine:
Every time a CDLR from Rousseau is served to me blind, I seems to always end up preferring it to his more famed wines. This was a real delight. Clear to medium ruby. Such a savoury nose. Some pop pouri. Sweet strawberries and raspberries.
From BV
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5/1/2020 - fc1910 Likes this wine: 95 Points
My last bottle opened 5 hours prior consumption,
great smell, smoky, forest floor, cherry, red cassis,
up front and sleek on the palate, so ready for business with a decant, some spice, really deep and multilayered well structured, fresh cherry fruit, the pure lingering finish, extraordinary bottle, will keep this condition surely for a decade+ more, ***(*-*****)
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10/20/2018 - Bottlesofburgundy Likes this wine:
perfectly balanced wine of the day depth great acidity complexity, cool fruit, beautiful acidic aftertaste class of its own, next level
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10/9/2018 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
A very mineral wine with delicious red and black fruits and a hint a suggestion of meat sneaking into the aroma and flavour profiles. Exquisite balance, great perfume and gorgeously sweet fruit.
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2/10/2018 - Bottlesofburgundy Likes this wine:
Shy nose some earthiness and undergrowth. Palate subtle, nuanced blackcurrant and black cherry in perfect balance with tannins, each sip a holiday! The great contradiction of elegance and power in equal measure in every mouthful. Very long black fruit aftertaste. The best wine we had in years. Incredible to believe a wine can be this good. Drinking perfectly now
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11/13/2017 - peternelson wrote: 94 Points
Aromatic nose of asian spice, hoisan, dark red and black berries, a bit of forest floor, super silky, seamless start to finish, amazing wine. But overpowered by the duck. At Spago
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10/6/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Theme: MSD Grand Crus
Powerful, rustic, heavy at first but mellow down later. Sweet ripe cherry. Quite seamless but getting tighter, powerful. Not ready.
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10/6/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:
MSD GC theme'd dinner @ Summer Pavilion.
TBU...
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8/2/2017 - FYC wrote:
Lots of bright red cherry on the nose but also some spice. This is more silken and resolved than than the 02. At the end of the night the acidity and oak comes to the forefront and throws it a bit off balance. Otherwise a wonderful wine.
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6/24/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Musique & Vin Festival BYO Dinner with Musicians (1243 Bourgogne Society - Beaune): Small glass, brief note. Red cherry and berry with spice hints. Good+ length and weight with very good balance. Certainly very charming, but I Mike expect more from Rousseau in this great vintage, but alas, that is often the story with this cuvée.
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12/9/2016 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Rousseau CDLR 1999
Bright red in colour. Quite rich on the nose. Strawberry notes. Great intensity on the palate. Bit of heat on the finish. Great persistence.
Probably higher controversial, but I enjoyed the 08 of this wine I had earlier in the week more. Perhaps just 99 still too tight. Perhaps a reflection of the hard work the domaine has put into this cuvée?
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11/17/2016 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Rousseau Dinner (Vaucluse): Expressive nose, leathery red berry fruit with some scorched earth and rustic tones. Cool menthol and eucalyptus as well. Big on the palate with nice development. Excellent balance and structure. Tannins still slightly green.
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6/2/2016 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points
A beautiful, refined CDLR with deep cherry fruit and a medium-body. Silky and lacy and still quite young as the finish seemed to be holding something back. Still lacking the soul and vigor of the '95 Lignier tasted alongside.
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5/31/2016 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark cherry and blueberry aromas with a licorice backnose. Still young on the palate. Fine tannins, good acid, but lacks heft across the midpalate. Some upside here. Opened one hour prior to consuming.
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12/25/2015 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 95 Points
Medium ruby with a touch of clouding. Beautiful wafting bouquet of fully ripe red cherry and cool menthol. Good damp underbrush, drying cranberry, and tea leaves. Explosive red berry fruit on the palate but still extremely elegant and silky. Hedonistic drinking. Tannins totally integrated. Incredible minerality with acrylics and slate. Amazing mix of soily dried berries and tingling minerals. Fresh ground coffee after some air time. Far superior to a 1993 opened a week or so ago. This was really great.
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10/12/2015 - Pacalet wrote: 90 Points
Medium red in color, nose of fresh dark red cherries, palate is ripe and rounded with good energy and balance yet I think a tad simple as depth is lacking. A decent drink but perhaps not quite at the same level as 99 Lignier, Dujac or Ponsot.
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8/4/2015 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points
Fresh red cherries, round and delicious if a bit obvious and lacking serious complexity. Very ready now and the fruit is just lovely so it's hard to knock this wine for pure pleasure.
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3/1/2015 - coremill wrote:
La Paulee Dinner at Recette (Recette): Poured next to the 02, and both were outstanding, and quite similar. Super pure, ripe raspberries and spice, with the 02 just a little riper and fresher and the 99 a tad redder in character and more integrated. But they were clearly variations on the same theme, and both have an incredible textural refinement with lush, super-silky tannins. Both were an absolute joy and my co-WOTNs.
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2/7/2015 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fully mature, but still lively, with concentrated, complex fruit and well-developed secondary flavours of mushroom and sous bois; very long on the finish. An excellent wine.
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11/6/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This wine showed very well up against a solid bracket of CdlR from Dujac and Ponsot last year and last night in isolation it was terrific. There was just a faint whiff of compost to the aroma showing that the wine was beginning to develop but it is still very fresh and youthful. There are cherry and blueberry fruits and an engaging thread of flora. It is silky in the mouth with good depth and lovely savoury nuance. Length is very persistent and proportion perfect.
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6/28/2014 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 94 Points
Medium red colour, not showing any brown at this stage. The nose is fragrant and piercing, with cherry and raspberry fruit. The palate is rich, with ripe fruit and well-developed secondary flavours, and a long, lingering finish. This is drinking very well now, but should keep and perhaps continue to develop for a while.
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5/4/2014 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 92 Points
Fairly deep colour; a lively nose of raspberry and cherry; good concentration on the palate, mature but still fresh and lively, with secondary flavours developing, and good length. A good example, which is drinking very well now. I don't see this improving.
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5/3/2014 - Amugica wrote: 92 Points
Beautiful Pinot Noir. Fresh and floral, but definitely with ancient aftertastes and added complexity after 15 years of aging.
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1/28/2014 - andrewdl wrote: 93 Points
Excellent burgundy.
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11/16/2013 - sehill Likes this wine: 94 Points
Another outstanding showing for this wine. This bottle shows a combination of youthful elements and maturity. The bouquet offers notes of black cherry, plum, spice, earth, bark and floral notes that are detailed and elegant. The color is a slightly tarnished medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate shows complexity and nuance with a medium to long finish. The is outstanding now and should continue to drink well for many years.
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10/15/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Good colour and density. Spicy and earthy with nice floral nuance. It has nice depth of flavour and proportion and is a wine that has plenty of material on which to age upon over a long period of time.
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6/29/2013 - rm wines wrote:
Superb clarity and fruit. While many '99s are still a bit awkwardly young and in need of more age, this wine was ready to go. A real lightness on the palate and some good zippy acidity to keep the ripe fruit in check. I'm sure this will get better with time but there is no shame in drinking it now.
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6/29/2013 - acyso wrote: 95 Points
HDH auction tasting at Tru (and an embarrassment of riches) (Chicago, IL): Much riper than the '02 I tasted alongside. A whole ton of red and black fruit, but still great balance from a firm acidic backbone, although the '99 is a bit lighter on the minerality. Very nice silky tannins.
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6/29/2013 - tooch wrote: 95 Points
HDH Auction Notes (Tru - Chicago, IL): Took some time to blossom, but air revealed a pristine core of red fruits, earth, and some barnyard. The fruit on the palate is expectedly rigid, but classy, and deep. Loved the mouthfeel on this...silky, smooth, resolved tannins. Gorgeous, with a lot of life.
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1/31/2013 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fine, fragrant nose; attractive, red fruit flavours (strawberry, raspberry, redcurrant); very smooth and elegant but with some tannin still on the finish which becomes more evident with time. Potentially very fine, but needs time.
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12/12/2011 - Sycamore wrote: 91 Points
To some extent it seemed like the wrong timing on this bottle -- it seemed caught between its youthful exuberance and older age. Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing because its multiple dimensions were fascinating over the course of the evening. Hints of secondary components along with increased power and strength and a pronounced earthy component came through in the last 1/3 or so of the bottle. Nice fruit throughout, and excellent balance. If I had another, I'd wait 5 years or more.
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4/16/2011 - sehill Likes this wine: 95 Points
This wine displays a wonderful combination of maturity and youthfulness. This is aging as (or better than) expected. The aromatics offer a complex, detailed blend of black cherry, plum, spice, earth, mocha and floral notes. The color remains a youthful medium to dark ruby. The medium bodied palate provides balance, depth and lengthy finish. This is a complete wine that is at or around maturity. This is not likely to improve with additional bottle age, but with this showing, the should continue to drink well for many years.
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4/16/2011 - danstrings wrote: 98 Points
Scott and Kate's din din -- Stupendous beauty. Mind boggling freshness and fruitiness for 12 years old. Still brilliant dark in color, on the nose a kaleidescope -- glaceed dark fruit meets candied black pepper meets mocha meets beef consommé (yes!). Lots of lovely ripe fruit on the palate -- perfectly ripe, heady, floral plum leads. Sexy oak there as well, but not obtrusive (mocha, coconut notes). Like a coconut-infused plum/raspberry glacee. Lavender and pollen notes swirl in and out, and a touch of foresty pine/fresh scents. Masterful.
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11/18/2010 - presterjohn wrote:
Great depth and layers of fruit. mouth intense, tannic, deep. Fabulous, serious. Good length. V good but simpler than CSJ
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8/24/2010 - mmdavis4 wrote: 93 Points
Lovely mature burgundy. Getting into the secondary flavors but still yummy, rich fruit. Nose is earthy but no hint of funk. Wonderful mouth feel. Vibrant but no hard edges. I agree that there is plenty of life in this wine, but I see no reason to wait to open additional bottles. And I did not decant. This was great right out of the bottle, though it certainly evolved after opening. A wonderful grand cru Burgundy experience.
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4/12/2010 - La Grappe wrote: 96 Points
NCWS 1999 Red Burgundy tasting. This was my WOTN. Very fresh, bright, perfumed, soft, lush, lively and ripe. Hard to find any fault. Superb balance.
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3/30/2010 - Rupert wrote:
I had a little sip when I first opened it - sweet strawberry pinot, absolutely lovely, but a couple of hours later at the restaurant it had completely lost its mojo - dull, flat, disappointing
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3/7/2010 - La Grappe wrote: 95 Points
Intense, raspberry nose. The colour is light to medium intensity and pale at the edges. The palate is just about mature, rather sweet, with deep, red fruit flavours, good balance and length. It developed and intensified in the glass, and it probably the best Rousseau Clos de la Roche I have had. It still has plenty of life ahead of it.
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2/20/2009 - noppakit s. wrote: 92 Points
Drink along with Ponsot CDLR VV 1999, so different in style, A.Rousseau CDLR shows a new world full-toasted oak at the start. When time passed by, it's getting more redfruit, roses with the easy delicious Burg and becomes quite modern-classic after 3.30 hours. The aftertaste is good and long enough to get 91-92/100.
Ponsot makes Clos de la Roche as a top wine. If A.Rousseau does the same, maybe it's better than this. Anyway, this is wine....That's why ?
IMO, I always love CDLR wine especially from Hubert Lignier so I must say that A.Rousseau's CDLR is equal or better than Clos St. Jacques.
Grand Cru is Grand Cru !!!
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2/10/2008 - Rupert wrote: 91 Points
Very pure - I'd have said Gevrey in style, darker and less sweet than a typical Rousseau, some earth and undergrowth, red fruits, silky texture - fully ready in my book
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12/28/2006 - jerhardt wrote: 92 Points
At La Toque. A very nice showing. By no means a blockbuster wine, but amazing for its purity and definition. Medium ruby red with no sediment or haze. The nose was initially pretty restrained upon opening, but blossomed in the glass. Great minerality intertwined with red fruit. Perfectly balanced, this was enjoyable now, but obviously has a long life ahead of it.
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4/14/2006 - peternelson wrote: 93 Points
L’Ecusson: Lite, elegant cherry, lite soy; silky as hell; feminine and seductive; super elegant w/structure; great expnasive mth, earth notes. Beautiful, & a bitr undescribable.
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6/28/2005 - Vin Rouge Fan wrote:
Nice notes on the nose with strawberry and darker fruit present. To taste, this wine tasted way young to me. The wine fell apart within an hour and I get barely access any fruit at all. Very tight and closed down. We left half of the bottle. No improvement upon tasting the next day. The nose had faded to a glimmer of what it had been, even after an hour in the glass.
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