2001 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les Cazetiers

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/3/2020 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Dinner at Yan (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): Very nice, although not quite as impressive as the last time we had it. I loved the nose, with its alluring Gevrey notes of sous bois, meat, and gentle red fruit touched with little bits of florals and spice. The palate was really charming, with silky tannins and soft acidity lapping against a core of pure red fruit. I loved the transparent clarity, and the beautiful silliness of it, but this did feel a bit thinner and shorter than the last bottle. Time to drink up perhaps, but this was otherwise really nice.

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  11/2/2019 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Youthful nose with lots of red fruit - cherry, strawberry, raspberry - emerging, plus some cinnamon/clove spices. At first reticent palate bloomed over a couple of hours with more red fruit, spices, pepper, cheerful tartness. Beautiful and balanced, very long. At once delicate and potent enough to stand up to veal with rich sauce. Very good.

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  5/11/2016 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Gevrey-Chambertin Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Opened some half-a-day before the dinner service, this was showing very nicely blind - a very refined, elegant interpretation of the terroir. If I did not know that we had a Gevrey theme, I could well have guessed this as a Chambolle instead. The nose was rather pretty - there was a touch of earthy dirt and steely mineral, and then just a hint of Gevrey's smoked bacon scents, but beyond that, this was all about dark cherries and red berries and lots of sweet floral notes. The palate was no blockbuster, but what it lacked in sheer power, it made up for in finesse and liveliness, with a succulent mouthy of sweet, juicy red cherries playing against a backdrop of herb, all swathed in slinky, silky tannins and vibrant acidity that gave the wine a Chambolle-like seductiveness and finesse. It was only the slight meaty depth lurking behind all that which brought us back to Gevrey, coming out alongside some of that earthy dirt picked up on the nose, and then a slightly chewier bite of powdery tannins right at the end of the finish. So well put-together, and it had such a lovely transperancy to it as well. There was such quality here that we all were wondering whether it was a Grand Cru at first. The lighter palate made the table guess otherwise eventually, but that was still saying something about its quality. Starting to drink really well, but I dare say it will keep improving over the next 5-6 years at least.

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  12/13/2011 - colmanstephenson Likes this wine:

  Beautiful, fragrant, developed, iron/velvet texture.
  Loved this.
  Certainly has another few years left

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  10/18/2011 - colmanstephenson Likes this wine:

  A: fairly deep but starting to mature
  N: Beautiful, captivating deep. Layers.
  P: Plenty of fruit, tannin (almost 'chunky') and acidity makes this the most 'complete' and upright of the vertical ('00, '01, '02, '03)

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