This magnum drank very youthfully last night. The nose is gorgeous with classic notes of cherry barnyard and ferrous minerals. Ethereal on the palate with good fruit intensity and a crisp yet layered mouthfeel. The finish is firm and complex with beautiful notes of cherry spice and crunchy minerals. 94+
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Consistent with my previous note. An ok Rousseau CSJ but underwhelming. Ginger flowers, berries, spice and herbs. For a CSJ, the palate is too straightforward and light. 91-92
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Served blind. On the nose lovely roasted meat aromas waft from the glass. On the palate there is also a lot of meatiness, very wholesome, a now wine. A really great 1998 (which often is too angular / sharp for me). Nice outperformance for the vintage from Rousseau here! Drink now and over the next 5 years.
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out of mag @marinos deep dark colorant a nose of spicy dark red fruits, youthful fruit forward mouth and well balanced, nice long finish and I would say singing,,, really good bottle drunk too young
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I was surprised at how good this wine was. Earlier notes on this wine were varied but it seems to have turned the corner and shows deep fruit coupled with beautiful earth and dry leaves plus some sweet spice notes of cinnamon and nutmeg. All wrapped together in a perfectly pretty package. This is a gorgeous wine.
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Took a good two hours to open up. Candied fruit, stems and wild berries. It showed good sweetness and length when it opened up, but lacking excitement and complexity when you expect its a rousseau csj. 91-92
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This showed beautifully at our annual game dinner at Daniel last night. Clean with great cut and precision and awesome cherry fruit. Tertiary notes are just coming into play here so it will continue to grow more interesting and complex but great to catch it now while the fruit and acidity are still front and center. The finish had gorgeous mineral crunch and beautiful red spice complexity. A perfect magnum. 95+
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This is turning the corner into maturity and has that wonderful aged Rousseau nose of macerated cherries, sweet earth and smoky dark forest. On the palate, it's lighter-bodied but showing beautiful medicinal cherry fruit with a fine crunchy intensity. There is also smoky/sweet earth and a bit of barnyard funk. Finishes with superb complexity with wonderful notes of forest floor and crisp minerals. Drinking beautifully now out of magnum.
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Tart, pure red fruit, lively on attack. Hollow in middle and somewhat hard on finish. Perfectly fine but not for level or producer. A product of its vintage.
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4th of 6, decanted then drunk over 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, previous notes '08-'10 better than fine - mid red, some development on rim; very classy involving nuanced bouquet of black fruits, earth meat with a touch of spice, improving over the 90 mins; medium bodied, silk, very long, persistent, nuanced, with that lovely laid back Rousseau quality....ie everything in its place, nothing forced, layer after layer of flavour as the wine rolls over the tongue (cf LLC and G. Conterno Cascina Francia 95 on same night (we lucky boys and girls!)), just a hint of the tell tale dry tannins of vintage on exit. F+ (18).
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1998 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Cheng Hu Tien, Keong Saik Road, Singapore): In a word - superlative. Like the Fourrier Clos St Jacques that preceded it, this was quite clearly Grand Cru quality. In fact, as much as I loved the Fourrier, I found this far stronger – it was every bit as charming, but was a much more complete wine. We had another lovely nose here, with deep wafts of dark cherries and berries and dried flowers laced with lots of fragrant spices, with cloves at the forefront, and then a touch of dried earth – a heady mix of the masculine and feminine, all making for a tremendous bouquet. The palate was very fine indeed. It had amazing finesse, with pure flavours of red cherries and berries and sour plums cloaked with a light layer of super-fine tannins and just pitch perfect balance lent by lovely, bright acidity. Like the nose, there was this beguiling femininity and elegance on the palate wed to a more masculine tones, with a savoury, slightly meaty counterpoint and a great undercurrant of mineral and spice stretching into a strong, super-long finish. Boy this was great. A fantastic wine just starting to show its chops – give it 5 years or so in the bottle, and it will be even better.
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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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Medium red in color, nose of ripe red fruit with beef jerky and slight licorice. Light to medium body with good transparency and balance. A good but not great Rousseau CSJ.
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Ruby to middling garnet - starting to show some obvious maturity. Initially served too warm and nose meaty, beef tea and soy with a faint touch or ice-cream wafer caramel. Cooled down it focused up nicely with purer, red-fruited and more mineral aromas with the odd hint of wet dog. Similar story on the palate - initially very smooth, mellow, quite rich and a little diffuse; when cooled to a proper temp this showed brigher red fruit, reasonable intensity across the mid-palate and a slight 98 bite of tannin on the finish. Not top flight but very enjoyable. ****
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Popped and poured. Dark color with a very fresh red fruit nose. Zippy and full of life , this wine had a lot of layers. It opened a little in the glass and was nice to drink it side by side with the 90 as I could taste the common thread of rich red fruit
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Nice when wines that you really want to deliver do it. Meaty, earthy notes compliment the dark cherry and spiced plum fruit that is in abundance. This, in contrast to the Lafon, does its thing in a subtle, suave way. From the complexity of the aromatics to the full, energy laden mid-palate to the spicy, deep finish this wine just says special at every juncture. Utterly delicious and has nothing but upside for the foreseeable future. This is not the haunting 1999 but few wines are and this isn’t too, too far off. Easily operates in the 93-94 category if you are keeping score.
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Mature colour. A perfumed, elegant nose with some depth and intensity; the palate is similar and the finish quite long. To my taste, this is unlikely to improve, although it remains quite fresh.
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Brought this in magnum to Irving Mill, NYC. A leaner-styled pinot with lovely, snappy cherry fruit. Medium-bodied and finely concentrated but still young, it shows tasty notes of what I call that "haunted forest" flavor I often find in the best red Burgs. Finishes course and crisp and dry. The fruit is really special here and hopefully this wine is balanced enough to continue aging well despite the dry tannins of the vintage. 92+
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Pretty pale in color, looks older than it is. Cool nose with Gevrey iron and earth, then progressing to display menthol, blackberry, and greener herbal notes. On the lighter end of medium weight, black fruit, crisp acidity, and frankly, missing some flesh and generosity. It does open and improve with air but never gains real excitement. OK, but it drinks more like a village or a lower level Premier Cru bottling than a wine from this esteemed climat.
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Light to medium colour; attractive nose of fresh strawberries and raspberries, with a hint of beetroot. Firm and intense on the palate; elegant and very long. This is another fine example of the 1998 vintage.
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Clear, Medium acidity and tannin. It showed eathy, mushroom, meaty closed nose at the beginning and became floral, perfume and complex an hour later with Plum, cinnamon, smoke. The palate is very pleasant very fine structure. It has good acidity and very long length.
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Scott's dinner Marco visit--real soft mellow personality, with ripe fruit and soft chocolatey goodness. Not an extremely complex pinot, but a crowd pleaser and just the right amount of funk to make it interesting.
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Scott & Kate's (Burlingame, CA): Shows a lot of potential. Nice, well delineated fruit, goos balance, but a bit ungiving for me right now. Good raw materials, but needs time.
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An excuse to drink my only bottle of VVF (Sydney, Australia): A lovely, expressive nose - with strawberry, earth, cinnamon, violets and cherry. Texturally excellent, showing good balance and depth. Drinking well now, but will improve over the next 5 years. Needed a bit more length to reach brilliance, but still a great wine.
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Rousseau Dinner (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): This was a complete contrast to the prior wine. Big black and red fruit. Ripe, lush fruit with nice spice on the finish. Very long finish. Great overall balance. Not the most nuanced CSJ I’ve ever had, but lots of pleasure. This wine is getting close to its peak, and is drinking great right now.
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Provado às cegas para o GG06. Muito fino e elegante, complexo, com ótima acidez. Perfume delicioso, grande vinho! Típico, facilmente identificado como pinot da bourgogne. (A+). Excepcional.
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Drank with Roy Hersh, Dorene and guests. Drinking really well right now. Some early mature notes, but still good structure and a tiny bit of hardness on the finish. Should have lots of time left, but no shame in popping now.
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3/29/2022 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
This magnum drank very youthfully last night. The nose is gorgeous with classic notes of cherry barnyard and ferrous minerals. Ethereal on the palate with good fruit intensity and a crisp yet layered mouthfeel. The finish is firm and complex with beautiful notes of cherry spice and crunchy minerals. 94+
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12/14/2021 - vetty wrote: 94 Points
Palate is smooth but it does has strong back bone. Well balanced acidity and tanning. Fruity, floral, peppery aroma. Very csj.
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10/15/2021 - hprphf wrote: 92 Points
Seems consistent with previous vintage observation. Light, rocky, somewhat tawny. 91-92
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10/15/2021 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Consistent with my previous note. An ok Rousseau CSJ but underwhelming. Ginger flowers, berries, spice and herbs. For a CSJ, the palate is too straightforward and light. 91-92
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6/24/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 94 Points
Served blind. On the nose lovely roasted meat aromas waft from the glass. On the palate there is also a lot of meatiness, very wholesome, a now wine. A really great 1998 (which often is too angular / sharp for me). Nice outperformance for the vintage from Rousseau here! Drink now and over the next 5 years.
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3/19/2021 - reichken wrote: 96 Points
out of mag @marinos deep dark colorant a nose of spicy dark red fruits, youthful fruit forward mouth and well balanced, nice long finish and I would say singing,,, really good bottle drunk too young
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3/9/2020 - Topper wrote: 95 Points
I was surprised at how good this wine was. Earlier notes on this wine were varied but it seems to have turned the corner and shows deep fruit coupled with beautiful earth and dry leaves plus some sweet spice notes of cinnamon and nutmeg. All wrapped together in a perfectly pretty package. This is a gorgeous wine.
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6/10/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Took a good two hours to open up. Candied fruit, stems and wild berries. It showed good sweetness and length when it opened up, but lacking excitement and complexity when you expect its a rousseau csj. 91-92
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1/11/2019 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
JM Paulee. Magnum. Bit dirty, bit unbalanced.
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12/21/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
This showed beautifully at our annual game dinner at Daniel last night. Clean with great cut and precision and awesome cherry fruit. Tertiary notes are just coming into play here so it will continue to grow more interesting and complex but great to catch it now while the fruit and acidity are still front and center. The finish had gorgeous mineral crunch and beautiful red spice complexity. A perfect magnum. 95+
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6/15/2018 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is turning the corner into maturity and has that wonderful aged Rousseau nose of macerated cherries, sweet earth and smoky dark forest. On the palate, it's lighter-bodied but showing beautiful medicinal cherry fruit with a fine crunchy intensity. There is also smoky/sweet earth and a bit of barnyard funk. Finishes with superb complexity with wonderful notes of forest floor and crisp minerals. Drinking beautifully now out of magnum.
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6/13/2018 - LW31 wrote:
Tart, pure red fruit, lively on attack. Hollow in middle and somewhat hard on finish. Perfectly fine but not for level or producer. A product of its vintage.
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11/13/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
The nose had some sandalwood, rose petals and tart cherry fruit. There’s a touch of volatility and the palate is mid-weight and crunchy.
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12/29/2016 - Rani Likes this wine: 90 Points
Slightly stemmy, medicinal. Good balance here for a 98, very structured and long. Tannins are persistent. Will last a long time.
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7/26/2016 - liber Likes this wine: 94 Points
4th of 6, decanted then drunk over 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, previous notes '08-'10 better than fine - mid red, some development on rim; very classy involving nuanced bouquet of black fruits, earth meat with a touch of spice, improving over the 90 mins; medium bodied, silk, very long, persistent, nuanced, with that lovely laid back Rousseau quality....ie everything in its place, nothing forced, layer after layer of flavour as the wine rolls over the tongue (cf LLC and G. Conterno Cascina Francia 95 on same night (we lucky boys and girls!)), just a hint of the tell tale dry tannins of vintage on exit. F+ (18).
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4/30/2014 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
1998 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Cheng Hu Tien, Keong Saik Road, Singapore): In a word - superlative. Like the Fourrier Clos St Jacques that preceded it, this was quite clearly Grand Cru quality. In fact, as much as I loved the Fourrier, I found this far stronger – it was every bit as charming, but was a much more complete wine. We had another lovely nose here, with deep wafts of dark cherries and berries and dried flowers laced with lots of fragrant spices, with cloves at the forefront, and then a touch of dried earth – a heady mix of the masculine and feminine, all making for a tremendous bouquet. The palate was very fine indeed. It had amazing finesse, with pure flavours of red cherries and berries and sour plums cloaked with a light layer of super-fine tannins and just pitch perfect balance lent by lovely, bright acidity. Like the nose, there was this beguiling femininity and elegance on the palate wed to a more masculine tones, with a savoury, slightly meaty counterpoint and a great undercurrant of mineral and spice stretching into a strong, super-long finish. Boy this was great. A fantastic wine just starting to show its chops – give it 5 years or so in the bottle, and it will be even better.
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9/7/2013 - dtscbs wrote: 95 Points
Had with roasted chicken with mushroom velouté and asparagus.
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3/23/2013 - ricknat1 wrote: 91 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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11/6/2012 - Pacalet wrote: 91 Points
Medium red in color, nose of ripe red fruit with beef jerky and slight licorice. Light to medium body with good transparency and balance. A good but not great Rousseau CSJ.
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7/17/2012 - SimonG wrote: 92 Points
Ruby to middling garnet - starting to show some obvious maturity. Initially served too warm and nose meaty, beef tea and soy with a faint touch or ice-cream wafer caramel. Cooled down it focused up nicely with purer, red-fruited and more mineral aromas with the odd hint of wet dog. Similar story on the palate - initially very smooth, mellow, quite rich and a little diffuse; when cooled to a proper temp this showed brigher red fruit, reasonable intensity across the mid-palate and a slight 98 bite of tannin on the finish. Not top flight but very enjoyable. ****
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1/30/2012 - Rupert wrote:
Sappy and curry powder, spicy, quite meaty for a Rousseau, super but overshadowed by the Hudelot Noellat tonight
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7/10/2011 - reichken wrote: 93 Points
Popped and poured. Dark color with a very fresh red fruit nose. Zippy and full of life , this wine had a lot of layers. It opened a little in the glass and was nice to drink it side by side with the 90 as I could taste the common thread of rich red fruit
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11/21/2010 - jimbomatic wrote: 93 Points
Nice when wines that you really want to deliver do it. Meaty, earthy notes compliment the dark cherry and spiced plum fruit that is in abundance. This, in contrast to the Lafon, does its thing in a subtle, suave way. From the complexity of the aromatics to the full, energy laden mid-palate to the spicy, deep finish this wine just says special at every juncture. Utterly delicious and has nothing but upside for the foreseeable future. This is not the haunting 1999 but few wines are and this isn’t too, too far off. Easily operates in the 93-94 category if you are keeping score.
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11/18/2010 - presterjohn wrote:
sweet delicious nose, warm and soft, slight farmyard. hard mouth, great acidity, limpid, needs time - could be very good
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11/17/2009 - don_quichotte wrote:
Not a big fan. A more diluted version of the others. Suffers from the comparison with the 96 and 99.
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11/10/2009 - Rupert wrote: 93 Points
Rousseau Clos St Jacques 1986 to 2006 (The Ledbury, London): Direct focused cherry fruit, enticing, light, dances on the palate, very pure
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5/18/2009 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Mature colour. A perfumed, elegant nose with some depth and intensity; the palate is similar and the finish quite long. To my taste, this is unlikely to improve, although it remains quite fresh.
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3/6/2009 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Brought this in magnum to Irving Mill, NYC. A leaner-styled pinot with lovely, snappy cherry fruit. Medium-bodied and finely concentrated but still young, it shows tasty notes of what I call that "haunted forest" flavor I often find in the best red Burgs. Finishes course and crisp and dry. The fruit is really special here and hopefully this wine is balanced enough to continue aging well despite the dry tannins of the vintage. 92+
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1/31/2009 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Lean with firm tannins but shows beautiful complex cherry fruit. Hopefully it will improve if the tannins soften. Tasted at Mas, NYC 11/5/08. 92+
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12/6/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Pretty pale in color, looks older than it is. Cool nose with Gevrey iron and earth, then progressing to display menthol, blackberry, and greener herbal notes. On the lighter end of medium weight, black fruit, crisp acidity, and frankly, missing some flesh and generosity. It does open and improve with air but never gains real excitement. OK, but it drinks more like a village or a lower level Premier Cru bottling than a wine from this esteemed climat.
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10/22/2008 - La Grappe wrote: 92 Points
Light to medium colour; attractive nose of fresh strawberries and raspberries, with a hint of beetroot. Firm and intense on the palate; elegant and very long. This is another fine example of the 1998 vintage.
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8/7/2008 - albeytw wrote: 93 Points
Clear, Medium acidity and tannin. It showed eathy, mushroom, meaty closed nose at the beginning and became floral, perfume and complex an hour later with Plum, cinnamon, smoke. The palate is very pleasant very fine structure. It has good acidity and very long length.
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12/16/2007 - danstrings wrote: 92 Points
Scott's dinner Marco visit--real soft mellow personality, with ripe fruit and soft chocolatey goodness. Not an extremely complex pinot, but a crowd pleaser and just the right amount of funk to make it interesting.
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12/14/2007 - mdefreitas wrote: 91 Points
Scott & Kate's (Burlingame, CA): Shows a lot of potential. Nice, well delineated fruit, goos balance, but a bit ungiving for me right now. Good raw materials, but needs time.
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9/18/2007 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
An excuse to drink my only bottle of VVF (Sydney, Australia): A lovely, expressive nose - with strawberry, earth, cinnamon, violets and cherry. Texturally excellent, showing good balance and depth. Drinking well now, but will improve over the next 5 years. Needed a bit more length to reach brilliance, but still a great wine.
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6/30/2007 - JScott wrote: 92 Points
The nose alone is worth the score. Low pH gives it some zip but also may be distracting for some.
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5/25/2007 - MFong wrote:
7 Vintages of Armand Rousseau Gevrey-Chambertin Clos St Jacques 1er Cru (ABOF, Singapore): Predominantly undergrowth nose with fruit evaporating with airing; almost light for a Gevrey. Sweet on the attack. Heavy bodied but silky with smooth tannins. Gains structure with airing. Secondary notes showing age. Lingering finish.
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4/22/2007 - JScott wrote: 93 Points
A slightly leaner version of this label but still plenty of palate.
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6/22/2006 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Rousseau Dinner (Knightsbridge - Northbrook IL): This was a complete contrast to the prior wine. Big black and red fruit. Ripe, lush fruit with nice spice on the finish. Very long finish. Great overall balance. Not the most nuanced CSJ I’ve ever had, but lots of pleasure. This wine is getting close to its peak, and is drinking great right now.
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6/22/2006 - winefool wrote: 94 Points
Lieu-dits-cru Rousseau Dinner (Knightsbridge): Full clear red. Pale aroma of red fruit and spice. Really lovely rich structured sweet red fruit with a nice long finish.
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6/6/2006 - Vinho wrote: 94 Points
Provado às cegas para o GG06. Muito fino e elegante, complexo, com ótima acidez. Perfume delicioso, grande vinho! Típico, facilmente identificado como pinot da bourgogne. (A+). Excepcional.
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2/28/2006 - Blair Curtis wrote: 93 Points
Drank with Roy Hersh, Dorene and guests. Drinking really well right now. Some early mature notes, but still good structure and a tiny bit of hardness on the finish. Should have lots of time left, but no shame in popping now.
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