1999 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Ruchottes-Chambertin Clos des Ruchottes

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  4/13/2024 - drjb Likes this wine: 95 Points

  At a private dinner, Little Cove, Noosa. This wine was opened and slow-oxed for 6hrs before dinner. The colour was a deep rusty red with a terrific nose of wild strawberry, raspberry and dark plums with plenty of spice and mineral notes. The palate is rich with lovely black and red berry fruit notes balanced with lovely touches of spice and a persistent line of minerality that really defines this wine. This is really quite delicious !

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  12/15/2023 - Purple_FB Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep garnet, bramble and mixed spice tertiary nose with long finish. Felt like medium+ alcohol. Not showy on the nose but powerful wine to be drunk with food. This requires quite a bit of time to air and was better on the 2nd day.

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  5/5/2023 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A combination of superb floral aroma and complex taste in this relatively old wine. Perfect for 2 hours in the glass before it started to fade. Wordless for this stuff. Thank you, Uncle Yeh, for bringing this bottle today!

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  12/5/2021 - La Grappe wrote: 95 Points

  I last tasted this in February 2018 and I though it would still improve. I am glad to have waited. It has quite a dark colour and intense, slightly savoury, dark fruit, excellent balance and great depth. The fruit is slightly perfumed, with a touch of violets and the finish is very long. An outstanding wine.

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  8/15/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Rousseau night: Bought in the 1970s and split between Rousseau, Bonnefond and Mugneret (now Mugneret-Gibourg). Unsurprisingly Eric Rousseau kept the best plot, the Clos for himself.
  
  Popped and poured, which was a big mistake. By far the oldest tasting out of the five wines, rather musky without anything showing on the nose or on the palate at first. No delineation of flavours, reminded me of a Potel GC actually. Left it for an hour or so in my glass and it got a little sappier, but still only showed glimpses of its potential. Apparently it was absolutely singing towards the end of the night, but unfortunately I didn't get to taste that pour.

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