Bottle was in great condition, still very nice ruby red and ullage just under capsule.
No complains for this great 2003 bottle. Still fresh, oozed with vivacity despite being a bit tight to start with. First pour is tight, nothing much going on but you know you're in for a treat. Decanted for an hour, very pleasing scents of red fruits, rose petals, potpourri, hint of smokey earth, palate was then smoothed out, seamless mouthfeel, finish was a tad short but reasonable given the vintage.
Great fresh 2003 bottle despite the heat wave. Plus the great condition helped
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A medium depth of colour, mid-red/garnet; quite intense, with a mixture of red fruit flavours, a slight creaminess and a touch of blueberry; elegant, harmonious and with a very long finish. A little more complexity and it would be a great wine. As it is, it is very fine and drinking perfectly now.
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Candied fruit, sweet berries and spice on the nose. Palate shows the vintage sunshine but there is enough acidity to lift its freshness. Darkish red fruit spectrum. Outperformer for the vintage.
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Though very good indeed, the 03 Rousseau Beze is still very young. Full of blueberry and black cherry, suave and slightly floral, this remains quite primary. Nothing hot or cooked though the fruit profile is a shade darker than usual for Rousseau's Beze. I'd be inclined to give this lots of time.
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A deep colour; full, supple, ripe fruit, with notes of mushroom and fennel; quite intense, well rounded and long on the finish. This is developing well. A bit more acidity would help, but this is otherwise excellent.
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Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Bèze: 1964 - 2014 (Per Se): Open, ripe, and opulent red fruit nose. Palate is somewhat roasty, but is fine drinking right now. The fruit isn’t stewed as this is still stylistically clean, but it is overheated.
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2003 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Iggy's, Hilton Hotel, Singapore): A very good wine, even if it is not amonsgt the better Rousseau Beze's. Still though, very commendable quality for the vintage. It had the most typically Gevrey character on the nose out of the trio of Grand Cru from the village, with lifted tones pure red berries shading into intense blue fruit aromas; a touch volatile at first, edged with acetone notes, but when that calmed down, the fruit was met with a gentle earthiness and some nice floral accents. The palate had a surprisingly lovely texture - it was silky and balanced and drinking beautifully, showing a really nice purity to its red cherry expression in spite of the vintage, along with a good sense of length and intensity. The finish did show a strange buttersweet hint at the edges at first, but this faded behind the fruit quite quickly. I though the Serafin Charmes Chambertin drank just a bit more charmingly on the night, but this has a touch more stuffing in it and should age better over the next few years.
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Deeply coloured, dark cherry, with a slightly furry rim. Beautiful ripe dark fruits, intense, sweetly fragrant, blueberries and cherries with a lovely cherry pip spice. Fleshy, lush middle, excellent weight of rich ripe fruit. A dark mineral spicy edge to the fruit, finishing very clean and long with fine powdery tannins. Quite a broad open structure although with decent acidity and a solid set of tannins. Drinking beautifully.
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Birthday lunch for Mike and Andrew: Again a beautiful bouquet but this time, served blind, speaking of Gevrey Chambertin. Red fruit – especially ripe red cherries and plums – earth and dry underbrush aromas were accompanied by smoky gibier and some typical Gevrey funk. Similar on palate. A lot of opulent, ripe fruit with good fruit sweetness and flavours of red and dark cherries, plums, earth and a touch of forest floor. The 2003 character expressed itself as a slightly burnt edge to the fruit. Still, a large scaled and big volume wine in good balance. Well proportioned. Relatively refined and elegant. The oak was visible but relatively well absorbed by, and integrated with, the fruit. For the vintage, surprisingly good, racy acidity. Very long. Seriously good. Ideally I’d cellar this wine for a minimum of five more years but it was very enjoyable on the day!
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Good deep dark ruby colour. Very rich ripe, even over ripe plums and cherries. Intense and alluring. Ripe dark fruits, black cherry and plum. Rich palate, medium weight, quite primary without much secondary development. Reasonable acidity and fine tannins. Such depth of flavour it will last many more years, but whether it will develop into something different is questionable. Delicious in an Otago way, but with better structure.
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A deep colour and a very opulent, perfumed nose; rich, slightly sweet fruit on the palate and some residual tannin. Good length. This is very good now, but will probably develop further over the next 5, even 10, years.
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A deep colour, showing some maturity; rich, intense and rather sweet fruit (black cherry, bilberry), with a cooked, even slightly burnt, character. Very long on the finish. Very enjoyable, if untypical, Burgundy. This seems quite ready, but should keep well.
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Spicy nose with some pine needle sap, sweet cedar and black cherry. It is dense in the mouth with fruit that is slightly raisined. Big D thought it was ‘ducky’ showing plenty of meat and a little game.
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Lunch with Eric Rousseau (Jade Palace, Singapore): As expected from the vintage, this was dark fruited and rather ripe yet not over the top. Apart from a little warmth on the finish, one would be hard pressed to guess it as a 2003 as the acidity was not lacking. However, sweetness is a defining note though not in a New World-ish way. This has authority though lacks the elegance of a typical Bèze. Not exceptionally distinguished especially in the complexity area but great juice nonetheless with Grand Cru presence.
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An easy wine to enjoy but I didn't find it incredibly nuanced or interesting. Lots of black fruit, just moderate spice. This was about brute force and intense fruit, not much else. Became increasingly flabby with more time in glass.
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Absolutely stunning. It has THE balance and harmony. Nose is refined, fresh yet mature, berries, plum. Taste is incredible. Very full and sappy. Its covers the whole mouth and it sticks. Not breaking up at all. Taste just continues and aftertaste keeps lingering around for ages with a fruit/berry edge. Its tastes formiddable now but the well covered tannins will provide this wine with a nice long life as well. What a lovely Saturday/ Steen P.
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Burgundy Dinner with Friends (Bryn Mawr Country Club, IL): Darkest fruit profile of the entire flight. Very big and very powerful on the nose. Black and blue berry fruits with a decent amount of spice and wet mineral notes in the background. A bit of savory herb too. Huge and expansive on the palate; this is a monster Burgundy. Full bodied with a medium finish. Nice to try against the other vintages.
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bu en meme temps qu'un DRC Echézeaux de la meme année et l'a brillamment emporté ! les 2 bouteilles avaient la volupté et la matiere inégalable des grands Grands Crus de bourgogne mais le clos de bèze etait une véritable bombe aromatique, à laquelle s'ajoutait une longueur et une complexité comme je n'en avais jamais vu. Le coté solaire dse 2003 a été parfaitement intégré. Le DRC parassait un peu pale à coté, incroyable.
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Great tasting Domaine Armand Rousseau (De Librije(***), Zwolle, The Netherlands): This was the revelation of the tasting. I did not like many 2003 Burgs I had so far, but this is a very, very fine glass. It has good red fruit. A complete wine, greatness in the making? Nevertheless I devaluated it after an hour. My first score was 19,5, but like the Chambertin and Clos-St-Jacques it evolves to a kind of "dryness". I wonder how this will evolve. Some domaines in Bourgogne say 2003 is a year like 1947 that needed decades to really show it's worth. Could be, so far I'm not convinced. 19+
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Full colour. Deep, intense nose with beautiful, earth-driven fruit. Fabulous concentration. Mouth entry is quite full and slightly candied. Rather big and heavy but great intensity. Not an easy wine but very impressive. Very long finish shows superb balance. 5-
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Drunk at the Oak-double decanted, ruy color, sweet toasty nose, medium weight in the mouth, med high acidity, great balance, primary red fruit flavor, very long finish, it was an experiment to see how this was doing, it is quite young but a great bottle and tasted very burgundian considering the vintage
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Can not wait until 2013 because of my friend's request and it fails us.
Lighter toasted-oak than Chambertin 2003, seems to be more natural and elegant. Medium-bodied, good structure but much different from last bottle. This one is nice but no sign of killer finished.
Maybe… due to drink it followed by Haut-Brion Blanc 1994 “ The true killer ” and Haut-Brion 1990 “ The true love ” then, 1998 Musigny : Drouhin “ The true austere ” and Rousseau : Chambertin 2003 “ The true fighter ” so…Clos de Beze couldn’t show the real character.
Time passed by…a day later at noon…something never changes….same feeling.
Or maybe…it comes from different barrique but...I got this bottle from the same shop. Why ???
91-92/100
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Last night I sleep not so well...even go to bed very late @ 3 A.M. in the morning... 2 hours then wake up...another 3 hours then wake up again.
It must be the affect from aftertaste of Wine-Testing last evening. Clos de Beze 1993 : Faiveley vs. Clos de Beze 2003 : Rousseau
Now, at this moment, I still feel uncomfortable. The finished remains...
Huh...3 layers-aftertaste...
The colour is clear, beautiful ruby...looks doesn't like the killer.
The Nose is wonderful, strawberry, light to medium toasted oak, elegance, deep, full dimensions. Then nice espresso scent builds up very slow...bit by bit...and becomes Burgundy again. Reminds me of Henri Perrot Minot : Mazoyares Chambertin 2004 but more fuller body, very delicious, perfect balance, new style, fresh moods when compared with Faiveley.
The Aftertaste...Ground Zero very slow and soft...Ground Zero very smooth...Ground Zero very deep and dump. Nearly can't stand still !! Full Full-filled !!
Not aggressive, not heavy but very powerful indeed. Different from Rousseau's Chambertin.
2 bottles of Clos de Beze is too much for us, really !!
Good to drink it now - 2017 ...96-98/100...( my another bottle planned to be tested in 2013 ) . . . . ps. I really love drinking or testing great Burgundy but this wine can totally stop and change our next request.
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1/9/2023 - kentlaw Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bottle was in great condition, still very nice ruby red and ullage just under capsule.
No complains for this great 2003 bottle. Still fresh, oozed with vivacity despite being a bit tight to start with. First pour is tight, nothing much going on but you know you're in for a treat. Decanted for an hour, very pleasing scents of red fruits, rose petals, potpourri, hint of smokey earth, palate was then smoothed out, seamless mouthfeel, finish was a tad short but reasonable given the vintage.
Great fresh 2003 bottle despite the heat wave. Plus the great condition helped
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12/14/2022 - La Grappe wrote: 94 Points
A medium depth of colour, mid-red/garnet; quite intense, with a mixture of red fruit flavours, a slight creaminess and a touch of blueberry; elegant, harmonious and with a very long finish. A little more complexity and it would be a great wine. As it is, it is very fine and drinking perfectly now.
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8/17/2022 - La Grappe wrote: 94 Points
Soft, lush, elegant, nicely mature and long on the finish. Very fine and showing little age, but excellent now.
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8/2/2022 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 92 Points
Candied fruit, sweet berries and spice on the nose. Palate shows the vintage sunshine but there is enough acidity to lift its freshness. Darkish red fruit spectrum. Outperformer for the vintage.
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6/4/2020 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Modest floral aromatics, surprisingly lifted. Huge, bitter fruit palate.
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7/15/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points
Though very good indeed, the 03 Rousseau Beze is still very young. Full of blueberry and black cherry, suave and slightly floral, this remains quite primary. Nothing hot or cooked though the fruit profile is a shade darker than usual for Rousseau's Beze. I'd be inclined to give this lots of time.
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9/1/2018 - La Grappe wrote: 94 Points
A deep colour; full, supple, ripe fruit, with notes of mushroom and fennel; quite intense, well rounded and long on the finish. This is developing well. A bit more acidity would help, but this is otherwise excellent.
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2/4/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points
Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Bèze: 1964 - 2014 (Per Se): Open, ripe, and opulent red fruit nose. Palate is somewhat roasty, but is fine drinking right now. The fruit isn’t stewed as this is still stylistically clean, but it is overheated.
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2/27/2017 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
2003 Burgundy Grand Cru Dinner (Iggy's, Hilton Hotel, Singapore): A very good wine, even if it is not amonsgt the better Rousseau Beze's. Still though, very commendable quality for the vintage. It had the most typically Gevrey character on the nose out of the trio of Grand Cru from the village, with lifted tones pure red berries shading into intense blue fruit aromas; a touch volatile at first, edged with acetone notes, but when that calmed down, the fruit was met with a gentle earthiness and some nice floral accents. The palate had a surprisingly lovely texture - it was silky and balanced and drinking beautifully, showing a really nice purity to its red cherry expression in spite of the vintage, along with a good sense of length and intensity. The finish did show a strange buttersweet hint at the edges at first, but this faded behind the fruit quite quickly. I though the Serafin Charmes Chambertin drank just a bit more charmingly on the night, but this has a touch more stuffing in it and should age better over the next few years.
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3/3/2016 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Deeply coloured, dark cherry, with a slightly furry rim.
Beautiful ripe dark fruits, intense, sweetly fragrant, blueberries and cherries with a lovely cherry pip spice.
Fleshy, lush middle, excellent weight of rich ripe fruit. A dark mineral spicy edge to the fruit, finishing very clean and long with fine powdery tannins. Quite a broad open structure although with decent acidity and a solid set of tannins. Drinking beautifully.
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11/19/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Birthday lunch for Mike and Andrew: Again a beautiful bouquet but this time, served blind, speaking of Gevrey Chambertin. Red fruit – especially ripe red cherries and plums – earth and dry underbrush aromas were accompanied by smoky gibier and some typical Gevrey funk. Similar on palate. A lot of opulent, ripe fruit with good fruit sweetness and flavours of red and dark cherries, plums, earth and a touch of forest floor. The 2003 character expressed itself as a slightly burnt edge to the fruit. Still, a large scaled and big volume wine in good balance. Well proportioned. Relatively refined and elegant. The oak was visible but relatively well absorbed by, and integrated with, the fruit. For the vintage, surprisingly good, racy acidity. Very long. Seriously good. Ideally I’d cellar this wine for a minimum of five more years but it was very enjoyable on the day!
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9/19/2015 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Good deep dark ruby colour.
Very rich ripe, even over ripe plums and cherries. Intense and alluring.
Ripe dark fruits, black cherry and plum. Rich palate, medium weight, quite primary without much secondary development. Reasonable acidity and fine tannins. Such depth of flavour it will last many more years, but whether it will develop into something different is questionable. Delicious in an Otago way, but with better structure.
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7/24/2015 - La Grappe wrote: 93 Points
A deep colour and a very opulent, perfumed nose; rich, slightly sweet fruit on the palate and some residual tannin. Good length. This is very good now, but will probably develop further over the next 5, even 10, years.
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4/4/2015 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 94 Points
A deep colour, showing some maturity; rich, intense and rather sweet fruit (black cherry, bilberry), with a cooked, even slightly burnt, character. Very long on the finish. Very enjoyable, if untypical, Burgundy. This seems quite ready, but should keep well.
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5/13/2014 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Spicy nose with some pine needle sap, sweet cedar and black cherry. It is dense in the mouth with fruit that is slightly raisined. Big D thought it was ‘ducky’ showing plenty of meat and a little game.
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9/25/2012 - Michael wrote: 91 Points
excellent and still tasting young.
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4/16/2012 - d'Artagnan wrote: 93 Points
Dégustation Domaine Joblot (Restaurant L'Atelier, à Montréal, avec Jean-Marc Joblot): Après la dégustation Joblot.
Une grande finesse, élégance et fraicheur étonnante pour le millésime. Du grand vin, avec des tanins assez soyeux, il me semble à un stade idéal pour le boire. 93 pts
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2/5/2012 - Dbrane wrote: 89 Points
Lunch with Eric Rousseau (Jade Palace, Singapore): As expected from the vintage, this was dark fruited and rather ripe yet not over the top. Apart from a little warmth on the finish, one would be hard pressed to guess it as a 2003 as the acidity was not lacking. However, sweetness is a defining note though not in a New World-ish way. This has authority though lacks the elegance of a typical Bèze. Not exceptionally distinguished especially in the complexity area but great juice nonetheless with Grand Cru presence.
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2/3/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points
An easy wine to enjoy but I didn't find it incredibly nuanced or interesting. Lots of black fruit, just moderate spice. This was about brute force and intense fruit, not much else. Became increasingly flabby with more time in glass.
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8/28/2010 - bevort wrote: 99 Points
Absolutely stunning. It has THE balance and harmony. Nose is refined, fresh yet mature, berries, plum. Taste is incredible. Very full and sappy. Its covers the whole mouth and it sticks. Not breaking up at all. Taste just continues and aftertaste keeps lingering around for ages with a fruit/berry edge. Its tastes formiddable now but the well covered tannins will provide this wine with a nice long life as well. What a lovely Saturday/ Steen P.
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7/23/2010 - MatthewF wrote:
Burgundy Dinner with Friends (Bryn Mawr Country Club, IL): Darkest fruit profile of the entire flight. Very big and very powerful on the nose. Black and blue berry fruits with a decent amount of spice and wet mineral notes in the background. A bit of savory herb too. Huge and expansive on the palate; this is a monster Burgundy. Full bodied with a medium finish. Nice to try against the other vintages.
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5/26/2010 - elegil wrote: 100 Points
bu en meme temps qu'un DRC Echézeaux de la meme année et l'a brillamment emporté !
les 2 bouteilles avaient la volupté et la matiere inégalable des grands Grands Crus de bourgogne mais le clos de bèze etait une véritable bombe aromatique, à laquelle s'ajoutait une longueur et une complexité comme je n'en avais jamais vu. Le coté solaire dse 2003 a été parfaitement intégré. Le DRC parassait un peu pale à coté, incroyable.
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5/12/2010 - MauriceE wrote:
Great tasting Domaine Armand Rousseau (De Librije(***), Zwolle, The Netherlands): This was the revelation of the tasting. I did not like many 2003 Burgs I had so far, but this is a very, very fine glass. It has good red fruit. A complete wine, greatness in the making? Nevertheless I devaluated it after an hour. My first score was 19,5, but like the Chambertin and Clos-St-Jacques it evolves to a kind of "dryness". I wonder how this will evolve. Some domaines in Bourgogne say 2003 is a year like 1947 that needed decades to really show it's worth. Could be, so far I'm not convinced. 19+
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1/1/2009 - HandPickedBurgundy wrote:
Full colour. Deep, intense nose with beautiful, earth-driven fruit. Fabulous concentration. Mouth entry is quite full and slightly candied. Rather big and heavy but great intensity. Not an easy wine but very impressive. Very long finish shows superb balance. 5-
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12/1/2008 - Rupert wrote:
A Rousseau Dinner (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Extraordinarily rich, with sugary fruit, powerful, but a bit rhone-like
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11/5/2008 - reichken wrote: 92 Points
Drunk at the Oak-double decanted, ruy color, sweet toasty nose, medium weight in the mouth, med high acidity, great balance, primary red fruit flavor, very long finish, it was an experiment to see how this was doing, it is quite young but a great bottle and tasted very burgundian considering the vintage
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8/3/2008 - noppakit s. wrote: 91 Points
Can not wait until 2013 because of my friend's request and it fails us.
Lighter toasted-oak than Chambertin 2003, seems to be more natural and elegant. Medium-bodied, good structure but much different from last bottle. This one is nice but no sign of killer finished.
Maybe… due to drink it followed by Haut-Brion Blanc 1994 “ The true killer ” and Haut-Brion 1990 “ The true love ” then, 1998 Musigny : Drouhin “ The true austere ” and Rousseau : Chambertin 2003 “ The true fighter ” so…Clos de Beze couldn’t show the real character.
Time passed by…a day later at noon…something never changes….same feeling.
Or maybe…it comes from different barrique but...I got this bottle from the same shop. Why ???
91-92/100
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3/8/2008 - noppakit s. wrote: 97 Points
Last night I sleep not so well...even go to bed very late @ 3 A.M. in the morning... 2 hours then wake up...another 3 hours then wake up again.
It must be the affect from aftertaste of Wine-Testing last evening. Clos de Beze 1993 : Faiveley vs. Clos de Beze 2003 : Rousseau
Now, at this moment, I still feel uncomfortable. The finished remains...
Huh...3 layers-aftertaste...
The colour is clear, beautiful ruby...looks doesn't like the killer.
The Nose is wonderful, strawberry, light to medium toasted oak, elegance, deep, full dimensions. Then nice espresso scent builds up very slow...bit by bit...and becomes Burgundy again. Reminds me of Henri Perrot Minot : Mazoyares Chambertin 2004 but more fuller body, very delicious, perfect balance, new style, fresh moods when compared with Faiveley.
The Aftertaste...Ground Zero very slow and soft...Ground Zero very smooth...Ground Zero very deep and dump. Nearly can't stand still !! Full Full-filled !!
Not aggressive, not heavy but very powerful indeed. Different from Rousseau's Chambertin.
2 bottles of Clos de Beze is too much for us, really !!
Good to drink it now - 2017 ...96-98/100...( my another bottle planned to be tested in 2013 )
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ps. I really love drinking or testing great Burgundy but this wine can totally stop and change our next request.
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