1997 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos St. Jacques

Community Tasting Notes (33) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  7/6/2021 - GNBB wrote: 93 Points

  Opened & poured. Pale red with clear orange rim - a little depth. Nose is pungent with wonderful deep farmyard & sous bois - rich truffle, ripe wild strawberries - wears its age so well. Palate is medium bodied with wild strawberry, hedgerow, a light fennel note & a real freshness, notwithstanding an absolute full-on farmyard fragrance. Real class - will open a little more in the glass. Fully mature. Drink now. Excellent.

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  11/10/2019 - iobtoel Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Decanted for an hour. Perfumed, complex nose. Secondary notes, spice, graphite, flint. Multi-layered on the palate. Delicate, floral hints but with earthy notes. Some tobacco. Fades a little on the finish.

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  8/3/2017 - RISM Likes this wine: 93 Points

  "Pulled and poured", (which as it emerged was exactly the right approach with this wine). Very translucent brick appearance (of an old - 20 year - Burgundy), and the bouquet just leapt out of the glass: floral notes, violets, red berries, cherries, provencal herbs, and a hint of the Burgundy pinot "whiff" of barn-yard. The palate is surprisingly robust, structured, multi-layered. Full-bodied, round and silky-textured and a long, long finish. Surprisingly outstanding for the vintage. HOWEVER, did not improve with air-time. This is definitely one to drink straight from the bottle.

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  12/20/2016 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Gevrey Chambertin Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): A really nice wine in its own right, but this was almost like coming back down to earth after drinking an ethereal bottle of 2001 Rousseau CSJ alongside. On the night, this showed a beautiful nose, with perfumy notes of fresh flowers on their stalks along with red fruit. Not great complexity, but this was a spectacularly attractive nose. The palate showed a bit of thickness to it, somewhat lacking the detail and definition of the 2001, but it still had that same ringing purity of fruit in its red cherry and berry flavours, ringed with bits of mineral and earth and savoury umami tones on the midpalate. and then a dash of bramble and spice on the fiinish. With its juicy acidity and soft tannins, this was a really pretty wine that was really good to drink on the night - just unfortunately overshadowed by the stunning 2001.

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  12/17/2016 - robferguson1 wrote: flawed

  A fair bit cloudy to start but did improve with a wait , had a bit of metallic on the taste but was very long. Ok but passed it .

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