1995 Emmanuel Rouget Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Beaumonts

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  8/1/2019 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Not a ton of notes - contender for WOTN in a serious flight of Rouget and Rousseau. Really great red fruits. Still on the younger side. Great wine.

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  2/19/2019 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This has always been a beauty. Bittersweet to see my last bottle go, but it went out in heroic fashion. Ravishing right from the first sip, and in fact just like I remember it from a decade ago - tender and mouthfilling and almost like a Romanee-St.-Vivant. It has the texture of silk insofar as it has any texture at all but for the most part it feels ethereal and practically weightless. The fruit is at the stage where it hasn't gone fully post-fruit into earthy territory, but it's more the patina of fruit than fruit itself, perhaps some sensation of dried cherry but more like dried rose petals. Just as we were remarking that the only thing missing was the expected Vosne spice, those enticing cinnamon scents started to come out. This is just about as integrated, smooth, and seamless as wine ever gets.

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  10/20/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Concur with The Vines that Bind - this was outstanding. Opened and let breathe for about an hour. Right out of the gate this was highly nuanced with a nose of red cherries, spices, hints of darker fruits and some smoke. On the palate I found this to be classic burgundy - delicate and feminine in one sense and powerful in another. As someone at the table commented - this was very Jayer in style. Super clean and precise fruit. I've had great luck with 95s recently and this may have been the best 95 I've had to date.

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  11/21/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points

  The wine is enormous and youthful with loads of black cherry, black tea, dried herbs, and vosne spice. The nuances and complexities of Jayer are here, but the youthful black fruit is dominating the picture a bit. A wonderful floral aspect off a fresh pour. Highly expressive and showy, although I got the sense tonight that this is still holding back. A perfect bottle from the Wolfgang Grunewald collection, providing impressive drinking right now, but the fireworks are yet to come...

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  7/20/2015 - johnh1001 wrote:

  A very subtle nose of dark fruit, mushrooms, damp wood, hint of rhubarb and spice. Smooth and perfectly balanced but not a lot going on with the palate. Quite stern. Very refined but just didn't do it for me. Will try it again someday.

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