Tobacco and rose petal nose. Elegant, mainly red fruits, still young and primary, with some tertiary tobacco behind, along with some oaky char and tar. No farmyard, this is super clean and pure. Medium body, good acidity and very fine moderate tannins. Long finish, still quite straightforward with some complexity. Drinking now but will continue to develop positively for a couple of decades.
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Champagne and Burgundy evening (Private home in Arlington, Virginia): Among the three Pinot Noirs enjoyed this evening, this seemed to be almost Pauillac in nature, with evident lead pencil/graphite reflecting power and depth. There is a distinct dark cherry note, indeed, rather the pit of a juicy black cherry that beguiles the senses, especially as it also exudes floral notes. But unlike the Volnay tasted before, this wine includes an almost fiery mid palate, as if graced with a dollop of port: 1999 was a ripe vintage. And so pleasingly framed by nuanced structure that exudes both grip and polish, making me think "pristine balance." While the Volnay was far more floral, this was more dark fruit and graphite, with more impressive palate depth, essentially layer upon layer unfolding that rather amazes the senses. I realize that experts say that Clos St Jacques is not Grand Cru, but this producer crafts the best Clos St Jacques I have ever had, and 1999 is superb. Long, magical finish. And it has the concentration to last at least another 20 years if not more. Thanks to Chris Bublitz for this generous offering. 13% alcohol
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My third time with this wine and it's obviously really good but feels like this is just still 5-10 years too young before it truly reveals it's beauty. In CSJ vertical 88/94/95/96/99/07. I think there are a lot of other nearby vintages you rather open today (e.g. 95-98, 00)
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Chez W, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, browner rimmed and more evolved but otherwise in line with last bottle noted in Sept 21, maybe touch of caramel added to the velvety mouthfeel, usual Rousseau class, possible upside yet, 20+ years. VF (18.5).
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2022 Excellent Burgundy Adventure; 10/31/2022-11/6/2022 (Burgundy): Excellent appearance. Medium expressive complex nose displaying fully mature black and red fruit, black cherry, strawberry, sap, rose, leather, sous bois, raw cep, caramel, cinnamon and earth. Excellent concentration very finely layered mature black and red fruit, silky and harmonious, perfect amount of acidity, earthy mineral, and a long ripe black fruit driven finish with sous bois and leather at the end. This is a powerful but slightly rustic showing. If plan to open now, it should be served in a small gathering and enjoy over a few hours.
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blind Feels much fresher. Guessed younger, silky balanced, vivid acidity, nothing is annoying, for me at his peak if you like the it fruity. If you prefer the sweet malty notes you have plenty of time. Great concentration. 96
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Pre-2002 Rousseau Dinner (WS NYC): So, very tight. I just don't know if '99s will ever come around or if maybe they will be just coming into stride for the next centennial celebration.
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This is still remarkably fresh, with bright blueberry and dark cherry fruit, good intensity and a very long finish. This will probably still be good in 5, even 10 years time. A good buy from Tanners in May 2003 for £50.
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Deep rich spicy fruits, plenty of marly wet soil in the sun, dew drops on ferns, black cherry concentrate, but all wrapped in an ethereal silky rice paper thin skin. Maybe my WOTN amongst some of the greats in the room. Zachy's Burg dinner at AOC
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The ‘99 Rousseau Clos St Jacques is showing well now, but don’t doubt that it’s 10-15 years away from full maturity. Deep, powerful, and glossy, this offers ripe red cherry, subtle game, and sous-bois notes - truly impressive in terms of its balance between airy refinement and muscle. But whereas others have put this behind the ‘93, drinking the two side by side tonight, I cannot help but strongly favor the 93 for current drinking as well as future potential (over the next 20 years, anyway).
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(CDV) Si le nez a manqué d'éclat, la texture de ce vin fut merveilleuse! Finesse et profondeur, soyeux et sensualité, le toucher de bouche est d'une rare élégance. Et pourtant il n'y a rien de léger ici, les tanins sont certes fins mais bien serrés, j'ai rarement vu cela! Une belle acidité minérale vient clore les gorgées de ce nectar, et porter le vin sur la longueur. Le style aromatique de ce 99 était certes tertiaire, solaire, épicé, mais -du moins sur cette bouteille- manquait de lumière, de fruit ou de fleur, avec une prédominance d'épices et de sous-bois, une touche animale (cuir, crinière de cheval). Indéniablement un beau millésime de garde, mais peut-être un peu solaire/mûr... (95 texture / 90 nez)
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JK's 50th Birthday: Tight blue fruit turning compact, forward but very subtle, great aromatics and weight. Every new glass is better; plenty of upsides from here. 94-95+
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Really a 95+... So good. Amazing nose, lovely palate. Raspberry, cherry, tea... But still quite tense, quite tannic. Still broadly primary. Agree with other commenters: hold other bottles til after 2025. (But still, really really good now.)
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Very similar experience to a bottle from almost 2 years ago, the aromatics are so impressive but the palate remains a bit compact. It opened up over the course of several hours. Chris said it strongly echoes the 99 Chambertin which is currently more generous, giving the nose a 97 and palate a 94/95, and I would agree. I said in my last TN to wait 5 years, but wth life is short. I might try to listen to my old self next time
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A Magnificent Burgundy Afternoon (San Francisco): Light ruby. Complex aromas-meaty, herbs, iron, and charcoal. Harmonious feel, sappy with some remaining tannin. Bigger than the Chambertin in the same flight. Gorgeous, complete, and very long. I should say that the level of brett bothered others more than me.
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2nd of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, more open than March bottle revealing attractive wild strawberry component to the impressively layered flavour profile, velvety, more pent up force than usual for Rousseau and some heat on exit, plenty of upside. VF (18.5).
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Drinking beautifully. There's some Gevrey sauvage, musk, earth, floral spice and pure cherry fruit. It has good depth and volume and a velvety feel. It really builds through the palate and is cut by fine, minerally acidity. It has terrific presence and persistence.
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A small glass pnp before a dinner non blind I noted: loamy, bay leaf, savoury, beef blood, iron and earth, deep gravely, black fruit with a touch of Earl's gray tea.
Then left the bottle slow-ox for 6 hours and was served blind within 11 other vintages of Rousseau CSJ. Noted then: High acidity, cranberry, some silky vanilla oak kiss, real sap and persistence. Seemed younger with some air interestingly and conclusion was that this will be along ager and belongs among the pantheon of Rousseau CSJ vintages. To me among top 3 of the night just behind the 1990 and 2010, but very close to those. 96+
Remarkable for the plush mouthfeel and the seemingly endless layers of fruit. There’s a plum-like quality, candied fruit, elegant freshness, and a suppleness that I’ve rarely encountered in a burgundy. Drinking well now but can age for another decade or longer.
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Violets and roses, muscular and smokey with air and became a addictive soy sauce. Came alive after only 2 hours after we decanted. So structured and delicious. My best ever CSJ. I now understand why this vineyard should be a GC vineyard. Now to find more!
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[Side by side with '99 Ruchottes] Clear crimson in the glass, darker core. On the nose this is intense and youthful, a little tight still, very spicy and with great smoky detail. Palate is very powerful and concentrated. Honestly not ready in my opinion, although clearly a brilliant piece of work. Spice, some florals, some coffee detail, but tightly wound. This is quite obviously the technically superior wine, but the Ruchottes of the same age is providing much more pleasurable, soulful, and expressive drinking right now. Awesome pairing, one of those wines that makes you say there is nothing like Rousseau. 94 - 95.
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1st of 12, opened 150 minutes, third travelled cork, perfect level - even more backward than bottle Chez W in Feb 19, same flavour attributes and wonderfully concentrated and persistent, but edgier showing greater acidity and less laid back fruit expression, barely ready on this showing and with upside. VF (18.5).....goodness knows when Chambertin and Beze will be a point on this showing....probably a mistake not to have decanted.
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The palate is very energetic, there is still a lot of youth on this 21-year-old 1er cru. The touch is more earthy, with a sensation of wet stone and omnipresent minerality. Sensation of having terroir in the mouth, with a beautiful substance, very spherical, with a tangy side which gives a very nice length to the wine. The balance is flawless and the wine ends with a finish worthy of a grand cru, with a very intense touch of spice to line the throat with a very good length.
Excellent. A very rigorous wine in its construction as is often the case in 1999.
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very Gevrey fragrance ; deep red &purple fruit , earth aromas . It has elaborated the French burgundy ‘s supreme elegance. Its drinking window lasts for decades .
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Flat out sexy wine with sweet, ultra-fine tannins and velvety texture. This is drinking at peak form and should without a doubt stay there for another 2-3 decades. Showing supreme elegance and power without the weight. Easily bests most Grand Crus of Burgundy.
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Served blind next to Fourrier CSJ 01 this proved a far superior wine. Quite young looking (bright ruby) in the glass it needed some air but then it was beautiful - quite mineral, like sucking on a cherry stone, fresh sappy fruit and a sweet spiced finish with a lot of poise. Extremely precise! Felt like about 5 years away from total prime drinking window.
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A deep reserve of fruit with an acid spine across the palate bodes well for future develop. Requires 5-10 more years in the bottle to be consumed with regularity. 94-95+
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This has a lot of upside and is built for the long haul. The bouquet flashes greatness, while the mouth is tight, but over 3+ hours the flavors begin to assert themselves. Having been lucky enough to drink pristine bottles of 78 and 83 recently, i can see the path of evolution this is on and it’s a good one. The fragrance is very Gevrey and envelops the senses with deep red and purple fruit, earth and beef aromas. The flavors present dark and sour cherry with plenty of structure throughout. After several hours it gains depth and fruit so that the finish really lingers. It’s satisfying but even more intriguing...just hinting at what it will become. I probably won’t open another for at least 5 years
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Just a great Burgundy very much at Grand Cru level in this vintage. Delicious cherry fruit with great elegance and a fabulous mineral crunch on the very complex finish. Still on the upswing but certainly in its prime drinking window which should last for decades. 96+
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The best showing yet for this wine which is one of the best vintages ever of Rousseau St. Jacques. Fabulously pure cherry fruit is balanced by vibrant acidity and superb intensity. It improved so much after 30 minutes in the glass as it calmed down and became silkier and more integrated. The finish is magic with one of the best cherry mineral crunch complexities I’ve ever tasted. Stunning Premier Cru Burgundy! 96+ At byob game dinner at Daniel.
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'99 Red Burgundy Tasting: I always feel like I have to start a CSJ tasting note by recusing myself. I hear so many people rave about this wine, but I have yet to have an epiphany example. In any case, someone who appreciates this vineyard more is likely to have a wholly different opinion of this wine.
With that caveat aside, this wine seemed like it needs more time. It's very dark and dense, but a bit monolithic at this stage. There is so much material here that I suspect in a decade it will metamorphosize. To my taste, this and the Mugnier Musigny were the only two '99's that should not be opened anytime soon.
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Wild berries, flowers, herbs and citrus. Palate had tremendous depth and length with plenty of stuffing. The wine was surprisingly open for a 99 with a giving fruit. Really splendid with mouth-coating aftertaste. 94-95
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Lovely nose here of sweet cherries and minerals. Needed time in the glass to open and the last sip was the best. This particular bottle was lighter than I expected but showing very fine and elegant with gorgeous medicinal cherry fruit along with hints of forest floor and licorice. The finish has an excellent mineral crunch but not many tertiary notes yet. A really fine CSJ that's still climbing the ladder. 94+
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This was very good but when little brother get put next to his big brothers Beze and Chambertin its a tough comp. Great red fruits, good structure and energy. Very enjoyable and a ton of life left.
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Chez W, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level - medium garnet, translucent, leggy, little development; attractive pure cherry and damson flavours, iron core, hint of spice; medium, very long, persistent, decent concentration, fab balance and expression of fruitn not a 99 blockbuster, lovely now but more to come. VF (18.5)...pipped unready Cathiard Malconsorts 02 by some margin.
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Good and full. Some tannins still notable on the finish. Dark spice. This bottle somewhat muddled. Not a perfect bottle, as coffee and roasty notes emerged with air time
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Clear and crystalline with red berries, a light overall sweetness, and good acid across the palate. Balanced, although not evolved. Needs 10-12 more years. 94-95+
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This was a disappointing bottle. Unforgiving tartness upon opening, but smoothed out after 90 minutes in a decanter. Still not much complexity to speak of. At one point deep cherry and strawberry flavors came through, but those disappeared leaving a balanced and full bodied wine of little complexity. I’ll chalk it up to an odd bottle.
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This is full and rich, with quite lush, dark fruit (black cherry and blueberry), excellent balance and a very long finish. Attractively mature, but still fresh and should keep. Not tasted for nearly four years, and it seems to have evolved beautifully.
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Kelly, Kevin, RJ and Tom's excellent NYC adventure; 12/1/2017-12/3/2017 (New York City): Expressive nose displaying ripe black and red fruits, crushed blackberry and raspberry, roasted fruit, latte, caramel, rose, smoke and earth. Excellent concentration, beautifully layered sweet roasted black fruit, silky and polished, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, and a long decadent black fruit and latte driven finish. Although very youthful, this is drinking magnificently with the opulent fruit and the very precise and silky palate. This will age beautifully for another decade or two.
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Great Burgundy Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Decanted for a couple of hours before serving. Intense and showing so much roasted meat and sausage. Very concentrated, actually still slightly backward. This seemed to open and shut down several times in the hour+ in glass, but was always enticing me with its richness and/ or potential.
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Really liked this wine. Like so many 99s the is striking. Approachable now but long way to go. Such great balance of fruit, acid, alcohol, structure, power and elegance. Firing on all cylinders. Great complexity with some nuance just beginning. Texturally wonderful. Upside from here.
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Surprised the heck out of me with the elegance, red fruit, purity, and lack of oak. This is in the beginning of a nice drinking window. There is a bit of mint and coolness to this that makes it endearing. This 99 is not closed and the best is yet to come. My WOTN and IMO better than the 02 Rousseau Clos de Beze at this time. Exhibits that beautiful power without weight.
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Just so incredibly beautiful! I am torn between rating it 96 and 97, I know many rated it 97. From a pristine bottle (of two) bought by me upon release, I know it had perfect provenance. And it showed! I had the other bottle in 2007 where it outperformed a great 1999 Grivot Richebourg, so my expectations were high! And they were met. This showcases why you age the greatest wines, I suppose, though nothing was out of place ten years ago either. That still goes, as this wine is resolved, yet full of energy, tension and nerve with seemingly at least ten and probably closer to twenty years still left in it. Displaying a great and complex mix of primary and tertiary flavours with the secondary winemaking related notes only playing beautifully background. Great bottle. Why did I only buy two again?
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Miscellaneous Wines from a France Trip-Burgundy, Alsace, and Paris; 4/20/2017-4/29/2017: Impressively deep ruby. Some brettanomyces and black fruit on the nose to start. Hulking, tannic, and backward at first with imposing acidity. This awakened with air and blossomed with a duck dish, becoming remarkably sweeter and sappier, and showing deep cherry fruit along with its earthy core. This too has that unmistakable orange peel lift. The last sip was definitely best, and I look forward to trying the dregs tomorrow. I think this all the makings of great wine, and for me, the best of the 3 Rousseau wines we had over the past week. That is saying something when the other 2 were Grand Crus!
Still full of vigor the next day. One for long aging.
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Simply beautiful wine. Very pretty but powerful. There are notes of meat and earth coupled with black fruits and an engaging thread of flora. It is full, complex and luscious in the mouth with a velvety texture and great volume. Concentration and length are superb. Pretty close to wine of the day for mine.
Tightly wound with a beautiful earthy cherry perfume. Deep dark cherry fruit with notes of licorice and forest floor on the palate. Finishes tight and crisp with good mineral crunch. Classic Rousseau style and this is still young but very promising. 94+
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So this is a $718 bottle of wine. To me it tastes like a $230 bottle. It definitely tastes like a Grand Cru, not the Premier Cru it says on the label, but a $230 Grand Cru. If you told me it tasted like a $280 Grand Cru, I wouldn't argue. Reasonable people can disagree. But to me it tastes like 230 dollars, maybe 250.
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Absolutely superb nose of red fruit, roses, spice, earth and touch of mushroom. Amazingly fresh and vibrant on the palate. Keep growing in stature. Beautiful power and finesse. Easily GC quality.
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Keith's Blind Challenge 2015 (The Medlar, London): Blind. Dense, smokey nose. Lighter on the palate. Younger Pinot. Classy burgundy. This is the real deal. Plush cherry depth with a bright silky texture. Good vintage Rousseau or Dujac. *****
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I wanted to like this more, but it was rather tight. Tannins were hiding the fruit underneath. Nose and palate were a bit too austere, clearly a serious wine. Much nicer balance on the palate. Soft, a touch creamy. Slightly tart fruits
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A private tasting (Restaurant De Gieser Wildeman *, Noordeloos, Netherlands): Light, bright red colour, slightly weak; lovely ripe fruit on the nose, slightly dusty, earthy, harmonious, good depth; juicy and lively palate, cheerful, attractive and rounded, soft, gentle ripe tannins, power without weight but with great concentration lurking underneath; very good length. Extremely stylish, a very elegant 1999.
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Some bricking at the edge. Strawberry aroma. A distinctly feminine wine with flavors of sweet and bright strawberries, delicate spices, a hint of plums. Saturated flavors and long on the palate, clean.
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Deep dark color and nose of red fruits, this drinks great, well balanced, lush mouthful, light but all there, very long finish, more primary then tertiary but it just means a long long life to me
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Red cherry up front, nice balance. Medium to long finish. Great terroir, earthy nose backed by great fruit typical of a Clos St Jacques. Tastes like you are at the vineyard. Still vibrant. Tasted at Daniel Restaurant, New York. Tastavin dinner
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This bottle is showing more maturity than expected. The flavours are vegetal, with a note of violets, some sweetness, medium weight and an intense and persistent finish. There is certainly life in this, and complex, well-developed flavours, but on this showing I don't see it improving.
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- Crimsom color with slow forming legs and aromas of raspberry, black currant and soy sauce. It's in total harmony and has flavours of butterscotch and black pepper with a medium body. Silky texture with a long finish.
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bright fresh and lovely Rousseau elegance all over this wine - lifted aromas and well integrated oak on nose and palate - shows the elegance and freshness of Gevrey's higher slopes and has plenty of life in store - no hurry to drink this but not too young to enjoy. Lovely 1er cru - does not display Grand cru intensity but beautiful none-the-less
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This is a tremendous wine, with great fruit extraction, burgeoning complexity, and completely balanced. It is however too young. After decanting and resting for an hour it was tight. This wine has a lot to give, but it needs you to give as well, at least five more years and preferably eight. You will be well rewarded.
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Gevrey 1er Cru 99s @ Chez Bruce (overflow table) (Chez Bruce, London): Denser than the Cazetiers. Darker too. A good thwack of oak but it's well hidden. A 'look at me' quality. Poise, elegance, beauty, coupled with with and intelligence. Beauty in Chanel rather than the Cazetier's prettiness in a floaty summer dress. A clear notch above a bottle of this a month or two back. *****. (95, pushing 96)
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Keith P @ Trompette (La Trompette, London): Again, deep, savoury, dense red/black fruit. Dense and glossy - Tom says oaky, Jamie reduced. Anyway, 99 CSJ again apparently, so must be Rousseau. Solid and quite serious. Lacks the slightly ethereal quality of the Fourrier. A little more floral and lifted with a couple of hours of air, but still taking itself quite seriously. One for the longer haul. ****
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Fine deep ruby color. Simply gorgeous nose of dark cherries and wild forest with notes of char and spice. The nose is a bit out ahead of this beautiful wine which while delicious now, clearly needs a number of years to fill out its britches. After being open for an hour, the spritzy acidity calmed down some and fabulous medicinal cherry fruit began to show itself. The finish is already classic with intense spicy complexity but having tasted the '95 version of this wine just a few days ago which is near peak, I've got to be patient with the '99 and wait for the glories to come as this moves closer to maturity. 94++
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Bobs annual wine weekend (New Haven and Guilford): The three Rousseaus ruled in this flight again . The 99 is early, the 98 is very nice, the 97 is a knockout and best to drink tonight. Over time, it will be 99, 97 and 98. They are all complex, ripe and elegant in a way that sets his wines above everyone else and rousseau is the reference standard for CSJ. the wines are dense, balanced, earthy with a wild mix of dark and red fruits and the finish goes on forever.
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Mark's 60th (Hix Mayfair): A little maturity on rim. Searing pure mineral gravel nose underlying Pinot fruit. Rich and deep. Powerful long great finesse. Very fine
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Popped and poured. Big and powerful right from the start, but with clearly lots in reserve. Black cherry and berry with very dark, meaty spices. Lots of earth and a huge amount of mineral structure. Medium plus bodied with a long gripping finish. It kept getting better and better over the hour we drank it. This has a long life ahead of it still, though it is in a nice window right now; howeverI would definitely recommend a decant.
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1999 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Clos St. Jacques Horizontal: Tasting, brief note. I think this is the 4th time I have had this wine this year, absolutely sensational all 4 times. Sweet black fruit aromas with great spice. Powerful black cherry and blackberry flavors with big spice spice, dark chocolate and vanilla notes. Long, powerful and robust. Tasted alongside the other 4 domaine CSJ producers' 1999s, this was the best.
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Superb wine! Was served to me blind, but I recognised as Armand Rousseau This is such a great wine. Roussau offers a dimension few other Burgundies can match. Wow!
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Gorgeous aromas of baconfat, dark cherries and underbrush. Still firm and structured on the palate but this is beginning to drink well with rich fruit flavors of medicinal cherries, spices and charred oak. Just wonderfully balanced and very pure with a lovely finish that is already showing superb complexity. As good a young CSJ as I've tasted but I will try to keep my hands off the rest of my bottles for another few years. Gorgeous, sumptuous Burgundy. 94+
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Deep core, orange rim. This is essentially the best CSJ I have had so far, loaded with complexity, verve and class. It has absolutely seductive bouquet of sweet spices, chili leaves, roasted herb, meat, tons of lush dark fruits and red floral scents. This medium bodied CSJ is harge scale, possesses huge depth, amazing tension and packs tons of material, waiting to unwind. It grows and grows on the palate with palate staining intensity but it was the lightness (which also highlight the finesse) that really thrilled me. Slowly, inner perfume of dark floral filled in the mouth followed by sweet juicy red and blackberry, coffee, liquid mineral lingering at the ethereal finished. A complete, harmonious juice that will continue to improve in the bottle for another decade, min. 94-95+
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Pre-La Paulee Dinner at Zachys Auction and After-Party (Michael Mina and RN74 - San Francisco CA): Virtually identical to another bottle from a few weeks ago. Mostly black fruit with some red hints on the nose. Still fruit-driven, almost entirely primary. But the powerful fruit and sensational spice are just intoxicating. Long and intense finish. This is still a baby and will be a great wine for perhaps 20 more years, but it's gorgeous and open for business.
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Popped, decanted and poured. Black cherry aromas with intense baking spice. Flavors show same fruit and spice but also some dried savory herbs. Long and powerful black fruit flavors with big and powerful spice through to its finish. Really sensational and incredibly balanced. This makes you think CSJ should be Grand Cru.
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30th Birthday Dinner #1 (Charlie Trotter's, Chicago IL): Opened about two hours before trying, but I can't remember if it was decanted or not. Powerful, enticing aromatics of ripe dark berries, roasted game and earth. Beautiful spice. Dark berries on the medium plus bodied palate as well. Firm mineral backbone with great acidity. Long, gripping finish. Perfectly balanced. I'm hoping to save my last bottle for at least another 5 years.
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Dark cherry fruit with a hint of spice and cedar. Concentrated fruit with a kind of earthy, meaty impression on the palate. Great balance with nice acidity and firm tannins. Seems still to be young, it should continue to improve with time.
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Cambridge University / CellarTracker Dinner (Pembroke College, Cambridge): Still oh so young, bu this is really starting to settle into a nice maturing nose and palate - very funky notes of sous-bois, rasberry and mushroom - brilliant length - the tannins are still sticking out a touch, and the wine still feels young despite the fruit having a more mature taste. Excellent.
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Very gentle nose, not too much fuzz. Balanced and smooth. I sort of expected a little extra on the nose here. The taste was powerful, spicy, heavy, intense and lingering. After 2 hours the wine kind of closed down a bit, so I would not suggest waiting too long after opening. Gorgeous!
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Rousseau @ The Ledbury- dark color, dark fruits on the nose, big step up in weight and mouthfeel/ful from the 2000, this is rousseau in a glass, intense, full, sweet dark red fruits, yet floats on and on and on love the rousseau 99's...they are going to be great
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Rousseau dinner (The Ledbury, London): Much weightier than the 2000, but with the same cherry fruit profile, riper, deeper, more reserved, just about approachable, clearly fine and grand
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Wow, this stopped me dead in my tracks even after the delightful 2000 CSJ. So thick, rich and brooding with a much darker fruit and savoury profile vs the sweet, red, tart fruited 2000. Stunning to drink now but will be so much more over the next few decades.
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rode kleur, iets doorzichtig, neus geeft nog niet alles prijs, licht fruitig, dierlijkheid, mineraal, mooi complex, hele mooie smaak, super verfijnd en heel zuiver, bijzondere ervaring, finesse, lichtvoetig met ook zijn concentratie, volledig in balans, lekkere zoetige afdronk die lang blijft hangen. wijn is nu zeer genietbaar, maar kan nog een trede hoger met wat extra jaren, dit is vooral in de neus te verwachten, daar zit de meeste potentie. voor snelle beslissers is dit af en toe nog te koop
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Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Tribeca Grill - New York, NY): Black fruit with incredible spice on the nose, showing allspice, cinnamon and fresh thyme. Powerful fruit just explodes out of the glass with incredible concentration and density, but completely harmonious. Lots of new oak, tannins and acidity, but everything is in great balance. Truly sensational example of a great Clos St.-Jacques.
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Rich medium bodied wine, bursting with fruit and integrated tannins. Ruby to the edge. Candied fruits. Black cherries. Minerality. Rich, long flavor. Balanced acidity and vinosity. This is a fabulous premier cru drinking like a grand cru--and priced the likewise.
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Dinner at Home with Friends (My House, Chicago IL): A surprise addition to the Clos St Jacques flight. Decanted for roughly 45 minutes to an hour. Ripe, yet firm firm dark berries on the nose with powerful earth and game notes. Firm dark fruit on the palate as well with great spice. Medium plus weight, a long finish, and great balance. Lots of structure. Still quite youthful and has a long time to go. Wonderful wine.
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Big Lumber Burgundies (Heidi's, Minneapolis): An awesome showing. Smoky, racy dark fruit, meat, spice, and deftly integrated oak. Intense, complex, lively, and long on the palate. Gorgeous balance and structure. Velvety tannins and an endless finish. A flat-out gorgeous CSJ.
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Rousseau Clos St Jacques 1986 to 2006 (The Ledbury, London): Tight, but packed. This is the most obviously substantial wine so far, red fruited, but with a brooding power. Approachable and very enjoyable, but this will surely become much more expressive.
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Wow! This is a Grand Cru wine at Grand Cru prices in a Premier Cru bottle. Some slight orange showing at the edge of this dark glass of wine. Soaring aromas of framboise and strawberries. This wine starts out a bit tart, but opens up and mellows and mellows for hours. Wonderful evolution in the glass. The aromas carry through to the taste, with clean, pure strawberries and cassis and red fruits against a mellow, rich background. This wine just goes from strength to strength. Highly recommended. Open a bottle now, but will improve and gain even more depth and complexity over the next 5 - 8 years. -JBL
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Thrills and chills from the get go. Aromatically as dense as they come. Just oodles of stuff swirling around in the glass. I have no idea what the event horizon of this wine would look like at the sub-atomic level but I bet it’s pretty freaking fascinating. Suffice it to say that this wine smells freaking great. This has all the elements of the ’98 with a whole extra dimension of sappy, sweet, jumpy, youthful, dense, complex, red/black fruit going on. This wine is only beginning to stretch out and likely it’s stretches only amount to mild toe touching right now and it will begin fully limbering up a few years from now and then a few years after that it will do some warm up exercises and, well, you get the picture. This is formidable stuff and whatever reviews were written about this wine upon release couldn’t possibly have scratched the surface of this wine’s brilliance. This is a gem.
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Highly mineral driven nose and palate. After an hour or so, some dark berry fruit started to come out with a bit of spice, but it never really opened up. Some great elements; can't wait for it all to come together.
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Pure and beautiful Burgundy which is in a great place today. Loads of minerality and complexity. Just a dollop of 99 sweetness which makes it ohh soo sexy.
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A weekend of fine wines in LA (Sloan,Maiden,Grange,Rousseau,Shafer HS and more) (Los Angeles): A brilliant nose of fresh bright cherry and strawberry with a little hint of forest floor (aka MANURE). Very nice medium bodied texture, creamy with a bit of a pure meaty cherry taste on the palate with absolutely gorgeous acidity. with a (slightly restrained) nice finish of spices and cherry. To my untrained Burgundy palate is tasted a bit young
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Leaner-styled and quite elegant with medicinal cherry fruit. Medium-bodied and lovely but needs time to flesh out. Should ultimately be a great vintage for this wine on the elegant side. Tasted at Mas, NYC 11/5/08 92+
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Scarsdale Wine Group tasting at Crush (NYC). Still quite young but creamy-textured and powerful and very cherry. Still primary in its flavor development but extremely well balanced with good richness and a slight medicinal quality on the finish. Quite big and extracted for this wine which should be superb in 5 years plus.
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1er crus red Burgundy - 1999 and 2001 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany): (tasted single blind) Superb nose, clear pinot. Nice depth. On the palate very nice fruit, very pure with quite a lot of spices as well. Good acidity, a little bit of oak. Finish ok but still a bit restrained. Overall really outstanding quality.
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Served next to a '99 DRC '1er' at Craft. I brought this bottle along as an afterthought, just to check on how it was doing. I assumed it would be somewhat closed. Wrong! I can't believe how great this wine is tasting, right now. BRIGHT cherry flavors. BRIGHT is the operative word. a tiny bit of tannin, just a little acitity. Great length. Funny though. After about 1/2 hour, when I was down to my final couple of sips, the acid came forward. Much more green at the end. I rated it '97' based on the 1st 30 minutes. The rating would have dropped to say 90, based on the last few sips. Never seen this before....
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Quite primary on the nose, which of course was no surprise. In the mouth the wine is full bodied, intense, bursting with fruit, and full of promise. Should be tucked away for 10 years.
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2/15/2024 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Tobacco and rose petal nose. Elegant, mainly red fruits, still young and primary, with some tertiary tobacco behind, along with some oaky char and tar. No farmyard, this is super clean and pure. Medium body, good acidity and very fine moderate tannins. Long finish, still quite straightforward with some complexity. Drinking now but will continue to develop positively for a couple of decades.
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1/28/2024 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 100 Points
Champagne and Burgundy evening (Private home in Arlington, Virginia): Among the three Pinot Noirs enjoyed this evening, this seemed to be almost Pauillac in nature, with evident lead pencil/graphite reflecting power and depth. There is a distinct dark cherry note, indeed, rather the pit of a juicy black cherry that beguiles the senses, especially as it also exudes floral notes. But unlike the Volnay tasted before, this wine includes an almost fiery mid palate, as if graced with a dollop of port: 1999 was a ripe vintage. And so pleasingly framed by nuanced structure that exudes both grip and polish, making me think "pristine balance." While the Volnay was far more floral, this was more dark fruit and graphite, with more impressive palate depth, essentially layer upon layer unfolding that rather amazes the senses. I realize that experts say that Clos St Jacques is not Grand Cru, but this producer crafts the best Clos St Jacques I have ever had, and 1999 is superb. Long, magical finish. And it has the concentration to last at least another 20 years if not more. Thanks to Chris Bublitz for this generous offering. 13% alcohol
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7/1/2023 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 95 Points
My third time with this wine and it's obviously really good but feels like this is just still 5-10 years too young before it truly reveals it's beauty. In CSJ vertical 88/94/95/96/99/07. I think there are a lot of other nearby vintages you rather open today (e.g. 95-98, 00)
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2/11/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
Chez W, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, browner rimmed and more evolved but otherwise in line with last bottle noted in Sept 21, maybe touch of caramel added to the velvety mouthfeel, usual Rousseau class, possible upside yet, 20+ years. VF (18.5).
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11/6/2022 - dcwino wrote: 95 Points
2022 Excellent Burgundy Adventure; 10/31/2022-11/6/2022 (Burgundy): Excellent appearance. Medium expressive complex nose displaying fully mature black and red fruit, black cherry, strawberry, sap, rose, leather, sous bois, raw cep, caramel, cinnamon and earth. Excellent concentration very finely layered mature black and red fruit, silky and harmonious, perfect amount of acidity, earthy mineral, and a long ripe black fruit driven finish with sous bois and leather at the end. This is a powerful but slightly rustic showing. If plan to open now, it should be served in a small gathering and enjoy over a few hours.
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10/28/2022 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 96 Points
blind
Feels much fresher. Guessed younger, silky balanced, vivid acidity, nothing is annoying, for me at his peak if you like the it fruity. If you prefer the sweet malty notes you have plenty of time. Great concentration. 96
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6/12/2022 - BradE wrote:
In the good rather than great camp for current drinking. Still a wine of the future.
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6/11/2022 - shifter wrote: 93 Points
Pre-2002 Rousseau Dinner (WS NYC): So, very tight. I just don't know if '99s will ever come around or if maybe they will be just coming into stride for the next centennial celebration.
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3/18/2022 - La Grappe wrote: 95 Points
This is still remarkably fresh, with bright blueberry and dark cherry fruit, good intensity and a very long finish. This will probably still be good in 5, even 10 years time. A good buy from Tanners in May 2003 for £50.
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3/16/2022 - peternelson Likes this wine: 94 Points
Deep rich spicy fruits, plenty of marly wet soil in the sun, dew drops on ferns, black cherry concentrate, but all wrapped in an ethereal silky rice paper thin skin. Maybe my WOTN amongst some of the greats in the room. Zachy's Burg dinner at AOC
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12/25/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 95 Points
The ‘99 Rousseau Clos St Jacques is showing well now, but don’t doubt that it’s 10-15 years away from full maturity. Deep, powerful, and glossy, this offers ripe red cherry, subtle game, and sous-bois notes - truly impressive in terms of its balance between airy refinement and muscle. But whereas others have put this behind the ‘93, drinking the two side by side tonight, I cannot help but strongly favor the 93 for current drinking as well as future potential (over the next 20 years, anyway).
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12/16/2021 - Raage Likes this wine: 93 Points
(CDV)
Si le nez a manqué d'éclat, la texture de ce vin fut merveilleuse!
Finesse et profondeur, soyeux et sensualité, le toucher de bouche est d'une rare élégance. Et pourtant il n'y a rien de léger ici, les tanins sont certes fins mais bien serrés, j'ai rarement vu cela! Une belle acidité minérale vient clore les gorgées de ce nectar, et porter le vin sur la longueur.
Le style aromatique de ce 99 était certes tertiaire, solaire, épicé, mais -du moins sur cette bouteille- manquait de lumière, de fruit ou de fleur, avec une prédominance d'épices et de sous-bois, une touche animale (cuir, crinière de cheval).
Indéniablement un beau millésime de garde, mais peut-être un peu solaire/mûr...
(95 texture / 90 nez)
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11/20/2021 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points
JK's 50th Birthday: Tight blue fruit turning compact, forward but very subtle, great aromatics and weight. Every new glass is better; plenty of upsides from here. 94-95+
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11/17/2021 - jimcopland wrote: 95 Points
Really a 95+... So good. Amazing nose, lovely palate. Raspberry, cherry, tea... But still quite tense, quite tannic. Still broadly primary. Agree with other commenters: hold other bottles til after 2025. (But still, really really good now.)
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11/11/2021 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
Very similar experience to a bottle from almost 2 years ago, the aromatics are so impressive but the palate remains a bit compact. It opened up over the course of several hours. Chris said it strongly echoes the 99 Chambertin which is currently more generous, giving the nose a 97 and palate a 94/95, and I would agree. I said in my last TN to wait 5 years, but wth life is short. I might try to listen to my old self next time
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10/3/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:
A Magnificent Burgundy Afternoon (San Francisco): Light ruby. Complex aromas-meaty, herbs, iron, and charcoal. Harmonious feel, sappy with some remaining tannin. Bigger than the Chambertin in the same flight. Gorgeous, complete, and very long. I should say that the level of brett bothered others more than me.
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9/28/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very good balance here, although this bottle was in a bit of a slumber. 94-95
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9/22/2021 - dream wrote:
corked
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9/17/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
2nd of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, more open than March bottle revealing attractive wild strawberry component to the impressively layered flavour profile, velvety, more pent up force than usual for Rousseau and some heat on exit, plenty of upside. VF (18.5).
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7/12/2021 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Drinking beautifully. There's some Gevrey sauvage, musk, earth, floral spice and pure cherry fruit. It has good depth and volume and a velvety feel. It really builds through the palate and is cut by fine, minerally acidity. It has terrific presence and persistence.
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6/24/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 96 Points
A small glass pnp before a dinner non blind I noted: loamy, bay leaf, savoury, beef blood, iron and earth, deep gravely, black fruit with a touch of Earl's gray tea.
Then left the bottle slow-ox for 6 hours and was served blind within 11 other vintages of Rousseau CSJ. Noted then: High acidity, cranberry, some silky vanilla oak kiss, real sap and persistence. Seemed younger with some air interestingly and conclusion was that this will be along ager and belongs among the pantheon of Rousseau CSJ vintages. To me among top 3 of the night just behind the 1990 and 2010, but very close to those. 96+
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6/17/2021 - Lipsman Likes this wine: 95 Points
Remarkable for the plush mouthfeel and the seemingly endless layers of fruit. There’s a plum-like quality, candied fruit, elegant freshness, and a suppleness that I’ve rarely encountered in a burgundy. Drinking well now but can age for another decade or longer.
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5/29/2021 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
An impressive CSJ with good intensity and focus. Nicely layered red fruit. 95-96
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4/17/2021 - LB88 wrote: 95 Points
Violets and roses, muscular and smokey with air and became a addictive soy sauce. Came alive after only 2 hours after we decanted. So structured and delicious. My best ever CSJ. I now understand why this vineyard should be a GC vineyard. Now to find more!
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3/18/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
[Side by side with '99 Ruchottes] Clear crimson in the glass, darker core. On the nose this is intense and youthful, a little tight still, very spicy and with great smoky detail. Palate is very powerful and concentrated. Honestly not ready in my opinion, although clearly a brilliant piece of work. Spice, some florals, some coffee detail, but tightly wound. This is quite obviously the technically superior wine, but the Ruchottes of the same age is providing much more pleasurable, soulful, and expressive drinking right now. Awesome pairing, one of those wines that makes you say there is nothing like Rousseau. 94 - 95.
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3/13/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
1st of 12, opened 150 minutes, third travelled cork, perfect level - even more backward than bottle Chez W in Feb 19, same flavour attributes and wonderfully concentrated and persistent, but edgier showing greater acidity and less laid back fruit expression, barely ready on this showing and with upside. VF (18.5).....goodness knows when Chambertin and Beze will be a point on this showing....probably a mistake not to have decanted.
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1/22/2021 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Explosive nose on red fruit.
The palate is very energetic, there is still a lot of youth on this 21-year-old 1er cru. The touch is more earthy, with a sensation of wet stone and omnipresent minerality. Sensation of having terroir in the mouth, with a beautiful substance, very spherical, with a tangy side which gives a very nice length to the wine. The balance is flawless and the wine ends with a finish worthy of a grand cru, with a very intense touch of spice to line the throat with a very good length.
Excellent. A very rigorous wine in its construction as is often the case in 1999.
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1/11/2021 - Rainbow88 Likes this wine: 95 Points
very Gevrey fragrance ; deep red &purple fruit , earth aromas . It has elaborated the French burgundy ‘s supreme elegance. Its drinking window lasts for decades .
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12/8/2020 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 96 Points
Flat out sexy wine with sweet, ultra-fine tannins and velvety texture. This is drinking at peak form and should without a doubt stay there for another 2-3 decades. Showing supreme elegance and power without the weight. Easily bests most Grand Crus of Burgundy.
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12/1/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fresh, bright, with tangy acids on the finish. Abundant upside here. 94-95
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8/31/2020 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 96 Points
Served blind next to Fourrier CSJ 01 this proved a far superior wine. Quite young looking (bright ruby) in the glass it needed some air but then it was beautiful - quite mineral, like sucking on a cherry stone, fresh sappy fruit and a sweet spiced finish with a lot of poise. Extremely precise! Felt like about 5 years away from total prime drinking window.
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7/4/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
A deep reserve of fruit with an acid spine across the palate bodes well for future develop. Requires 5-10 more years in the bottle to be consumed with regularity. 94-95+
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2/29/2020 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
This has a lot of upside and is built for the long haul. The bouquet flashes greatness, while the mouth is tight, but over 3+ hours the flavors begin to assert themselves. Having been lucky enough to drink pristine bottles of 78 and 83 recently, i can see the path of evolution this is on and it’s a good one. The fragrance is very Gevrey and envelops the senses with deep red and purple fruit, earth and beef aromas. The flavors present dark and sour cherry with plenty of structure throughout. After several hours it gains depth and fruit so that the finish really lingers. It’s satisfying but even more intriguing...just hinting at what it will become. I probably won’t open another for at least 5 years
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1/31/2020 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
Just a great Burgundy very much at Grand Cru level in this vintage. Delicious cherry fruit with great elegance and a fabulous mineral crunch on the very complex finish. Still on the upswing but certainly in its prime drinking window which should last for decades. 96+
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12/19/2019 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points
The best showing yet for this wine which is one of the best vintages ever of Rousseau St. Jacques. Fabulously pure cherry fruit is balanced by vibrant acidity and superb intensity. It improved so much after 30 minutes in the glass as it calmed down and became silkier and more integrated. The finish is magic with one of the best cherry mineral crunch complexities I’ve ever tasted. Stunning Premier Cru Burgundy! 96+ At byob game dinner at Daniel.
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11/15/2019 - Kim Gerner wrote: 92 Points
Great red burgundy 1999 horizontal tasting (21 wines) - semi blind (Nordsjaelland): Not as fruity as his Ruchottes Chanbertin (I scored 93), but still fruity, cherry.
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9/27/2019 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
'99 Red Burgundy Tasting: I always feel like I have to start a CSJ tasting note by recusing myself. I hear so many people rave about this wine, but I have yet to have an epiphany example. In any case, someone who appreciates this vineyard more is likely to have a wholly different opinion of this wine.
With that caveat aside, this wine seemed like it needs more time. It's very dark and dense, but a bit monolithic at this stage. There is so much material here that I suspect in a decade it will metamorphosize. To my taste, this and the Mugnier Musigny were the only two '99's that should not be opened anytime soon.
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9/17/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wild berries, flowers, herbs and citrus. Palate had tremendous depth and length with plenty of stuffing. The wine was surprisingly open for a 99 with a giving fruit. Really splendid with mouth-coating aftertaste. 94-95
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5/2/2019 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely nose here of sweet cherries and minerals. Needed time in the glass to open and the last sip was the best. This particular bottle was lighter than I expected but showing very fine and elegant with gorgeous medicinal cherry fruit along with hints of forest floor and licorice. The finish has an excellent mineral crunch but not many tertiary notes yet. A really fine CSJ that's still climbing the ladder. 94+
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3/23/2019 - rube237 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely wine, peak now, classic Rousseau signature, much complexity here
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2/2/2019 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was very good but when little brother get put next to his big brothers Beze and Chambertin its a tough comp. Great red fruits, good structure and energy. Very enjoyable and a ton of life left.
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2/1/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points
Chez W, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level - medium garnet, translucent, leggy, little development; attractive pure cherry and damson flavours, iron core, hint of spice; medium, very long, persistent, decent concentration, fab balance and expression of fruitn not a 99 blockbuster, lovely now but more to come. VF (18.5)...pipped unready Cathiard Malconsorts 02 by some margin.
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1/28/2019 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Good and full. Some tannins still notable on the finish. Dark spice. This bottle somewhat muddled. Not a perfect bottle, as coffee and roasty notes emerged with air time
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10/27/2018 - Bottlesofburgundy Likes this wine:
Deep dark intense fruit
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8/10/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Clear and crystalline with red berries, a light overall sweetness, and good acid across the palate. Balanced, although not evolved. Needs 10-12 more years. 94-95+
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6/15/2018 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
Paul & Keith’s Old World v New World Chardonnay Challenge (La Trompette, London): Blind. Pinot. Slightly cloudy ruby. A touch of beetroot that seems to blow off. Quite grippy. More Burgundian. Serious but surly. ****
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3/1/2018 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Somewhat advanced bottle. Good dark fruit.
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1/18/2018 - Lipsman wrote: 89 Points
This was a disappointing bottle. Unforgiving tartness upon opening, but smoothed out after 90 minutes in a decanter. Still not much complexity to speak of. At one point deep cherry and strawberry flavors came through, but those disappeared leaving a balanced and full bodied wine of little complexity. I’ll chalk it up to an odd bottle.
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12/11/2017 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is full and rich, with quite lush, dark fruit (black cherry and blueberry), excellent balance and a very long finish. Attractively mature, but still fresh and should keep. Not tasted for nearly four years, and it seems to have evolved beautifully.
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12/2/2017 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points
Kelly, Kevin, RJ and Tom's excellent NYC adventure; 12/1/2017-12/3/2017 (New York City): Expressive nose displaying ripe black and red fruits, crushed blackberry and raspberry, roasted fruit, latte, caramel, rose, smoke and earth. Excellent concentration, beautifully layered sweet roasted black fruit, silky and polished, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, and a long decadent black fruit and latte driven finish. Although very youthful, this is drinking magnificently with the opulent fruit and the very precise and silky palate. This will age beautifully for another decade or two.
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10/19/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Great Burgundy Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Decanted for a couple of hours before serving. Intense and showing so much roasted meat and sausage. Very concentrated, actually still slightly backward. This seemed to open and shut down several times in the hour+ in glass, but was always enticing me with its richness and/ or potential.
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10/13/2017 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points
Really liked this wine. Like so many 99s the is striking. Approachable now but long way to go. Such great balance of fruit, acid, alcohol, structure, power and elegance. Firing on all cylinders. Great complexity with some nuance just beginning. Texturally wonderful. Upside from here.
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6/30/2017 - Alex G. Likes this wine:
Chevalier-Montrachet Lunch (Phoenix, AZ): Exotic spice nose, thin on the palate. This scored at the bottom of 3 '99's tasted together.
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6/12/2017 - FYC wrote:
Surprised the heck out of me with the elegance, red fruit, purity, and lack of oak. This is in the beginning of a nice drinking window. There is a bit of mint and coolness to this that makes it endearing. This 99 is not closed and the best is yet to come. My WOTN and IMO better than the 02 Rousseau Clos de Beze at this time. Exhibits that beautiful power without weight.
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6/3/2017 - SineQuaNon Likes this wine: 96 Points
Just so incredibly beautiful! I am torn between rating it 96 and 97, I know many rated it 97. From a pristine bottle (of two) bought by me upon release, I know it had perfect provenance. And it showed! I had the other bottle in 2007 where it outperformed a great 1999 Grivot Richebourg, so my expectations were high! And they were met. This showcases why you age the greatest wines, I suppose, though nothing was out of place ten years ago either. That still goes, as this wine is resolved, yet full of energy, tension and nerve with seemingly at least ten and probably closer to twenty years still left in it. Displaying a great and complex mix of primary and tertiary flavours with the secondary winemaking related notes only playing beautifully background. Great bottle. Why did I only buy two again?
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4/28/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:
Miscellaneous Wines from a France Trip-Burgundy, Alsace, and Paris; 4/20/2017-4/29/2017: Impressively deep ruby. Some brettanomyces and black fruit on the nose to start. Hulking, tannic, and backward at first with imposing acidity. This awakened with air and blossomed with a duck dish, becoming remarkably sweeter and sappier, and showing deep cherry fruit along with its earthy core. This too has that unmistakable orange peel lift. The last sip was definitely best, and I look forward to trying the dregs tomorrow. I think this all the makings of great wine, and for me, the best of the 3 Rousseau wines we had over the past week. That is saying something when the other 2 were Grand Crus!
Still full of vigor the next day. One for long aging.
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4/1/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Simply beautiful wine. Very pretty but powerful. There are notes of meat and earth coupled with black fruits and an engaging thread of flora. It is full, complex and luscious in the mouth with a velvety texture and great volume. Concentration and length are superb. Pretty close to wine of the day for mine.
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11/11/2016 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tightly wound with a beautiful earthy cherry perfume. Deep dark cherry fruit with notes of licorice and forest floor on the palate. Finishes tight and crisp with good mineral crunch. Classic Rousseau style and this is still young but very promising. 94+
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10/15/2016 - BradE wrote:
Good, but not great. Anticipated more.
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4/11/2016 - Lipsman Likes this wine: 95 Points
So this is a $718 bottle of wine. To me it tastes like a $230 bottle. It definitely tastes like a Grand Cru, not the Premier Cru it says on the label, but a $230 Grand Cru. If you told me it tasted like a $280 Grand Cru, I wouldn't argue. Reasonable people can disagree. But to me it tastes like 230 dollars, maybe 250.
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10/30/2015 - johnh1001 wrote: 96 Points
Absolutely superb nose of red fruit, roses, spice, earth and touch of mushroom. Amazingly fresh and vibrant on the palate. Keep growing in stature. Beautiful power and finesse. Easily GC quality.
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9/11/2015 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points
Keith's Blind Challenge 2015 (The Medlar, London): Blind. Dense, smokey nose. Lighter on the palate. Younger Pinot. Classy burgundy. This is the real deal. Plush cherry depth with a bright silky texture. Good vintage Rousseau or Dujac. *****
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6/18/2015 - PC73 Likes this wine: 91 Points
I wanted to like this more, but it was rather tight. Tannins were hiding the fruit underneath. Nose and palate were a bit too austere, clearly a serious wine. Much nicer balance on the palate. Soft, a touch creamy. Slightly tart fruits
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6/1/2015 - Biglama Likes this wine: 95 Points
zo elegant en lichtvoetig, rousseau ten voeten uit, wat een klasse
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6/1/2015 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 Points
A private tasting (Restaurant De Gieser Wildeman *, Noordeloos, Netherlands): Light, bright red colour, slightly weak; lovely ripe fruit on the nose, slightly dusty, earthy, harmonious, good depth; juicy and lively palate, cheerful, attractive and rounded, soft, gentle ripe tannins, power without weight but with great concentration lurking underneath; very good length. Extremely stylish, a very elegant 1999.
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3/2/2015 - Lipsman Likes this wine: 94 Points
Some bricking at the edge. Strawberry aroma. A distinctly feminine wine with flavors of sweet and bright strawberries, delicate spices, a hint of plums. Saturated flavors and long on the palate, clean.
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2/28/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
La Paulée de New York Gala Dinner (Metropolitan Pavilion - New York NY): Tasting, brief note. Rich and borderline hedonistic, so a perfect La Paulee wine. This wine showcases ripe black berries with intense concentration. I expect better in 5-10 years.
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5/17/2014 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Deep dark color and nose of red fruits, this drinks great, well balanced, lush mouthful, light but all there, very long finish, more primary then tertiary but it just means a long long life to me
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5/5/2014 - REWindsor Likes this wine: 94 Points
Red cherry up front, nice balance. Medium to long finish. Great terroir, earthy nose backed by great fruit typical of a Clos St Jacques. Tastes like you are at the vineyard. Still vibrant. Tasted at Daniel Restaurant, New York. Tastavin dinner
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4/2/2014 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
This bottle is showing more maturity than expected. The flavours are vegetal, with a note of violets, some sweetness, medium weight and an intense and persistent finish. There is certainly life in this, and complex, well-developed flavours, but on this showing I don't see it improving.
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1/17/2014 - jonggj wrote: 98 Points
- Crimsom color with slow forming legs and aromas of raspberry, black currant and soy sauce. It's in total harmony and has flavours of butterscotch and black pepper with a medium body. Silky texture with a long finish.
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1/13/2014 - sandon Likes this wine: 92 Points
bright fresh and lovely Rousseau elegance all over this wine - lifted aromas and well integrated oak on nose and palate - shows the elegance and freshness of Gevrey's higher slopes and has plenty of life in store - no hurry to drink this but not too young to enjoy. Lovely 1er cru - does not display Grand cru intensity but beautiful none-the-less
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6/20/2013 - Lipsman wrote: 95 Points
This is a tremendous wine, with great fruit extraction, burgeoning complexity, and completely balanced. It is however too young. After decanting and resting for an hour it was tight. This wine has a lot to give, but it needs you to give as well, at least five more years and preferably eight. You will be well rewarded.
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6/12/2013 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points
Gevrey 1er Cru 99s @ Chez Bruce (overflow table) (Chez Bruce, London): Denser than the Cazetiers. Darker too. A good thwack of oak but it's well hidden. A 'look at me' quality. Poise, elegance, beauty, coupled with with and intelligence. Beauty in Chanel rather than the Cazetier's prettiness in a floaty summer dress. A clear notch above a bottle of this a month or two back. *****. (95, pushing 96)
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6/11/2013 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Bright red fruited, high toned, classy. Softened a bit with air but still quite structured.
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5/1/2013 - Lord Rayas Likes this wine: 93 Points
rich, intense, earthy. long finish. should get better given a few more years.
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4/29/2013 - SimonG wrote: 93 Points
Keith P @ Trompette (La Trompette, London): Again, deep, savoury, dense red/black fruit. Dense and glossy - Tom says oaky, Jamie reduced. Anyway, 99 CSJ again apparently, so must be Rousseau. Solid and quite serious. Lacks the slightly ethereal quality of the Fourrier. A little more floral and lifted with a couple of hours of air, but still taking itself quite seriously. One for the longer haul. ****
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4/13/2013 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fine deep ruby color. Simply gorgeous nose of dark cherries and wild forest with notes of char and spice. The nose is a bit out ahead of this beautiful wine which while delicious now, clearly needs a number of years to fill out its britches. After being open for an hour, the spritzy acidity calmed down some and fabulous medicinal cherry fruit began to show itself. The finish is already classic with intense spicy complexity but having tasted the '95 version of this wine just a few days ago which is near peak, I've got to be patient with the '99 and wait for the glories to come as this moves closer to maturity. 94++
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3/23/2013 - ricknat1 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bobs annual wine weekend (New Haven and Guilford): The three Rousseaus ruled in this flight again . The 99 is early, the 98 is very nice, the 97 is a knockout and best to drink tonight. Over time, it will be 99, 97 and 98.
They are all complex, ripe and elegant in a way that sets his wines above everyone else and rousseau is the reference standard for CSJ. the wines are dense, balanced, earthy with a wild mix of dark and red fruits and the finish goes on forever.
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2/28/2013 - redders Likes this wine: 94 Points
Mark's 60th (Hix Mayfair): A little maturity on rim. Searing pure mineral gravel nose underlying Pinot fruit. Rich and deep. Powerful long great finesse. Very fine
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11/29/2012 - MatthewF wrote:
Popped and poured. Big and powerful right from the start, but with clearly lots in reserve. Black cherry and berry with very dark, meaty spices. Lots of earth and a huge amount of mineral structure. Medium plus bodied with a long gripping finish. It kept getting better and better over the hour we drank it. This has a long life ahead of it still, though it is in a nice window right now; howeverI would definitely recommend a decant.
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11/23/2012 - Burgundy Al Likes this wine: 94 Points
1999 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Clos St. Jacques Horizontal: Tasting, brief note. I think this is the 4th time I have had this wine this year, absolutely sensational all 4 times. Sweet black fruit aromas with great spice. Powerful black cherry and blackberry flavors with big spice spice, dark chocolate and vanilla notes. Long, powerful and robust. Tasted alongside the other 4 domaine CSJ producers' 1999s, this was the best.
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11/10/2012 - KristianT wrote: 95 Points
Superb wine! Was served to me blind, but I recognised as Armand Rousseau
This is such a great wine. Roussau offers a dimension few other Burgundies can match. Wow!
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10/27/2012 - dream wrote: 94 Points
Gorgeous aromas of baconfat, dark cherries and underbrush. Still firm and structured on the palate but this is beginning to drink well with rich fruit flavors of medicinal cherries, spices and charred oak. Just wonderfully balanced and very pure with a lovely finish that is already showing superb complexity. As good a young CSJ as I've tasted but I will try to keep my hands off the rest of my bottles for another few years. Gorgeous, sumptuous Burgundy. 94+
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9/13/2012 - Rupert wrote:
Pebbles Dinner (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Dark and muscular for a Rousseau, very classy, fabulous, but this is one which really does need more time
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6/20/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Burg Dinner, Mostly Meursault Charmes and Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru (Sepia - Chicago IL): Popped and poured, which was an injustice for this amazing wine. All black fruit on nose and palate with plenty of spice, much from new oak. Lots and lots of power and concentration come through, particularly on dense finish.
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6/2/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote: 94 Points
Deep core, orange rim. This is essentially the best CSJ I have had so far, loaded with complexity, verve and class. It has absolutely seductive bouquet of sweet spices, chili leaves, roasted herb, meat, tons of lush dark fruits and red floral scents. This medium bodied CSJ is harge scale, possesses huge depth, amazing tension and packs tons of material, waiting to unwind. It grows and grows on the palate with palate staining intensity but it was the lightness (which also highlight the finesse) that really thrilled me. Slowly, inner perfume of dark floral filled in the mouth followed by sweet juicy red and blackberry, coffee, liquid mineral lingering at the ethereal finished. A complete, harmonious juice that will continue to improve in the bottle for another decade, min. 94-95+
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4/14/2012 - BradE wrote:
Classy bottle of burg. Lots of tannin. Great nose. A good drink now, and a long great life ahead of it.
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2/26/2012 - BradE wrote:
An absolutely insanely off the charts bottle of 99 CSJ. The nose was stunning, and the palate matched. Absolutely a rock star.
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2/23/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Pre-La Paulee Dinner at Zachys Auction and After-Party (Michael Mina and RN74 - San Francisco CA): Virtually identical to another bottle from a few weeks ago. Mostly black fruit with some red hints on the nose. Still fruit-driven, almost entirely primary. But the powerful fruit and sensational spice are just intoxicating. Long and intense finish. This is still a baby and will be a great wine for perhaps 20 more years, but it's gorgeous and open for business.
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2/3/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Popped, decanted and poured. Black cherry aromas with intense baking spice. Flavors show same fruit and spice but also some dried savory herbs. Long and powerful black fruit flavors with big and powerful spice through to its finish. Really sensational and incredibly balanced. This makes you think CSJ should be Grand Cru.
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1/28/2012 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Clos and Clos: The OC Does Les Clos and Clos St Jacques (Marche Moderne, Costa Mesa CA): Long finish, with mint and a hint of chocolate. Shows strawberry, fresh and spicy in tone, with a dabble of blue fruit mixed in, too. This was very good but it simply got bested on this night by Fourrier's CSJ, both the 01 and 06.
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10/11/2011 - lepetitchateau wrote: flawed
The nose shows a hint of corkiness, worse on the palate; shame, this shows huge fruit underneath.
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7/29/2011 - MatthewF wrote:
30th Birthday Dinner #1 (Charlie Trotter's, Chicago IL): Opened about two hours before trying, but I can't remember if it was decanted or not. Powerful, enticing aromatics of ripe dark berries, roasted game and earth. Beautiful spice. Dark berries on the medium plus bodied palate as well. Firm mineral backbone with great acidity. Long, gripping finish. Perfectly balanced. I'm hoping to save my last bottle for at least another 5 years.
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7/16/2011 - PangurBan wrote: 92 Points
Dark cherry fruit with a hint of spice and cedar. Concentrated fruit with a kind of earthy, meaty impression on the palate. Great balance with nice acidity and firm tannins. Seems still to be young, it should continue to improve with time.
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4/30/2011 - pjaines wrote:
Cambridge University / CellarTracker Dinner (Pembroke College, Cambridge): Still oh so young, bu this is really starting to settle into a nice maturing nose and palate - very funky notes of sous-bois, rasberry and mushroom - brilliant length - the tannins are still sticking out a touch, and the wine still feels young despite the fruit having a more mature taste. Excellent.
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4/4/2011 - Shiaxonna wrote: 93 Points
Very gentle nose, not too much fuzz. Balanced and smooth. I sort of expected a little extra on the nose here. The taste was powerful, spicy, heavy, intense and lingering. After 2 hours the wine kind of closed down a bit, so I would not suggest waiting too long after opening. Gorgeous!
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3/10/2011 - reichken wrote: 94 Points
Rousseau @ The Ledbury- dark color, dark fruits on the nose, big step up in weight and mouthfeel/ful from the 2000, this is rousseau in a glass, intense, full, sweet dark red fruits, yet floats on and on and on
love the rousseau 99's...they are going to be great
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3/10/2011 - Rupert wrote: 94 Points
Rousseau dinner (The Ledbury, London): Much weightier than the 2000, but with the same cherry fruit profile, riper, deeper, more reserved, just about approachable, clearly fine and grand
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3/10/2011 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Wow, this stopped me dead in my tracks even after the delightful 2000 CSJ. So thick, rich and brooding with a much darker fruit and savoury profile vs the sweet, red, tart fruited 2000. Stunning to drink now but will be so much more over the next few decades.
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3/5/2011 - Biglama wrote: 95 Points
rode kleur, iets doorzichtig, neus geeft nog niet alles prijs, licht fruitig, dierlijkheid, mineraal, mooi complex, hele mooie smaak, super verfijnd en heel zuiver, bijzondere ervaring, finesse, lichtvoetig met ook zijn concentratie, volledig in balans, lekkere zoetige afdronk die lang blijft hangen. wijn is nu zeer genietbaar, maar kan nog een trede hoger met wat extra jaren, dit is vooral in de neus te verwachten, daar zit de meeste potentie. voor snelle beslissers is dit af en toe nog te koop
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2/11/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 95 Points
Zachys La Paulee "Warm-up" Dinner (Tribeca Grill - New York, NY): Black fruit with incredible spice on the nose, showing allspice, cinnamon and fresh thyme. Powerful fruit just explodes out of the glass with incredible concentration and density, but completely harmonious. Lots of new oak, tannins and acidity, but everything is in great balance. Truly sensational example of a great Clos St.-Jacques.
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12/5/2010 - Lipsman wrote: 94 Points
Rich medium bodied wine, bursting with fruit and integrated tannins. Ruby to the edge. Candied fruits. Black cherries. Minerality. Rich, long flavor. Balanced acidity and vinosity. This is a fabulous premier cru drinking like a grand cru--and priced the likewise.
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11/18/2010 - presterjohn Likes this wine:
hard, pointed nose. tight mouth, depth, good structure, for the long term. beautiful clear fruit, intense, long
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6/27/2010 - MatthewF wrote:
Dinner at Home with Friends (My House, Chicago IL): A surprise addition to the Clos St Jacques flight. Decanted for roughly 45 minutes to an hour. Ripe, yet firm firm dark berries on the nose with powerful earth and game notes. Firm dark fruit on the palate as well with great spice. Medium plus weight, a long finish, and great balance. Lots of structure. Still quite youthful and has a long time to go. Wonderful wine.
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5/15/2010 - vinamok wrote: flawed
cork
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4/19/2010 - bevort wrote:
As always a stunning wine. It drinks absolutely fantastic now but there is no hurry. Everything in perfect balance. Drank at Restaurant M.A.S.H
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11/19/2009 - Siggy wrote: 96 Points
Big Lumber Burgundies (Heidi's, Minneapolis): An awesome showing. Smoky, racy dark fruit, meat, spice, and deftly integrated oak. Intense, complex, lively, and long on the palate. Gorgeous balance and structure. Velvety tannins and an endless finish. A flat-out gorgeous CSJ.
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11/10/2009 - Rupert wrote: 94 Points
Rousseau Clos St Jacques 1986 to 2006 (The Ledbury, London): Tight, but packed. This is the most obviously substantial wine so far, red fruited, but with a brooding power. Approachable and very enjoyable, but this will surely become much more expressive.
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11/5/2009 - Chevaliers wrote: 95 Points
Wow! This is a Grand Cru wine at Grand Cru prices in a Premier Cru bottle. Some slight orange showing at the edge of this dark glass of wine. Soaring aromas of framboise and strawberries. This wine starts out a bit tart, but opens up and mellows and mellows for hours. Wonderful evolution in the glass. The aromas carry through to the taste, with clean, pure strawberries and cassis and red fruits against a mellow, rich background. This wine just goes from strength to strength. Highly recommended. Open a bottle now, but will improve and gain even more depth and complexity over the next 5 - 8 years. -JBL
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6/18/2009 - jimbomatic wrote: 95 Points
Thrills and chills from the get go. Aromatically as dense as they come. Just oodles of stuff swirling around in the glass. I have no idea what the event horizon of this wine would look like at the sub-atomic level but I bet it’s pretty freaking fascinating. Suffice it to say that this wine smells freaking great. This has all the elements of the ’98 with a whole extra dimension of sappy, sweet, jumpy, youthful, dense, complex, red/black fruit going on. This wine is only beginning to stretch out and likely it’s stretches only amount to mild toe touching right now and it will begin fully limbering up a few years from now and then a few years after that it will do some warm up exercises and, well, you get the picture. This is formidable stuff and whatever reviews were written about this wine upon release couldn’t possibly have scratched the surface of this wine’s brilliance. This is a gem.
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6/13/2009 - MatthewF wrote:
Highly mineral driven nose and palate. After an hour or so, some dark berry fruit started to come out with a bit of spice, but it never really opened up. Some great elements; can't wait for it all to come together.
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3/16/2009 - jamiekutch wrote:
Pure and beautiful Burgundy which is in a great place today. Loads of minerality and complexity. Just a dollop of 99 sweetness which makes it ohh soo sexy.
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3/3/2009 - clayfu wrote: 94 Points
A weekend of fine wines in LA (Sloan,Maiden,Grange,Rousseau,Shafer HS and more) (Los Angeles): A brilliant nose of fresh bright cherry and strawberry with a little hint of forest floor (aka MANURE). Very nice medium bodied texture, creamy with a bit of a pure meaty cherry taste on the palate with absolutely gorgeous acidity. with a (slightly restrained) nice finish of spices and cherry. To my untrained Burgundy palate is tasted a bit young
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1/31/2009 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Leaner-styled and quite elegant with medicinal cherry fruit. Medium-bodied and lovely but needs time to flesh out. Should ultimately be a great vintage for this wine on the elegant side. Tasted at Mas, NYC 11/5/08 92+
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12/1/2008 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
A Rousseau Dinner (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Meaty and spicy, tight and brooding, but not wholly dumb, one can sense the power here, and it's not far from expressing itself
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5/25/2007 - MFong wrote:
7 Vintages of Armand Rousseau Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St Jacques 1er Cru (ABOF, Singapore): Forward and heavy. Powerful but short on the finish. Biggest of the flight.
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12/8/2006 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Scarsdale Wine Group tasting at Crush (NYC). Still quite young but creamy-textured and powerful and very cherry. Still primary in its flavor development but extremely well balanced with good richness and a slight medicinal quality on the finish. Quite big and extracted for this wine which should be superb in 5 years plus.
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11/22/2006 - Will wrote:
1er crus red Burgundy - 1999 and 2001 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany): (tasted single blind) Superb nose, clear pinot. Nice depth. On the palate very nice fruit, very pure with quite a lot of spices as well. Good acidity, a little bit of oak. Finish ok but still a bit restrained. Overall really outstanding quality.
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10/26/2006 - PeterH wrote: 97 Points
Served next to a '99 DRC '1er' at Craft.
I brought this bottle along as an afterthought, just to check on how it was doing. I assumed it would be somewhat closed. Wrong! I can't believe how great this wine is tasting, right now. BRIGHT cherry flavors. BRIGHT is the operative word. a tiny bit of tannin, just a little acitity. Great length. Funny though. After about 1/2 hour, when I was down to my final couple of sips, the acid came forward. Much more green at the end. I rated it '97' based on the 1st 30 minutes. The rating would have dropped to say 90, based on the last few sips. Never seen this before....
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2/14/2004 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 94 Points
Quite primary on the nose, which of course was no surprise. In the mouth the wine is full bodied, intense, bursting with fruit, and full of promise. Should be tucked away for 10 years.
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