Community Tasting Note

• justburg wrote: 89 points

  December 9, 2016 - SS's birthday lunch at Les Amis. Deep and dark red, very primary in appearance. Again, a typical Roumier wine which is extremely dark fruited - currants, cranberry, plums. The nose took some time to get going, but even when it did, it struggled to produce the finer elements of Chambolle. Seemed to have a huge amount of acidity and tannin. The wine was robust, powerful and meaty, but brooding and not very expressive. There was a similar amount of elevated acidity on the palate, and I personally felt there was a lack of rich and good fruit to balance out this acidity. Pomegranate, cranberry and sour plum, along with old leather, barnyard, roast meat, tar. I see this wine has lots of good reviews, but personally, this didn't really shine through. Maybe more time would be beneficial, but at $2,000 a bottle (in current market), no go.

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• cfk49 commented:

  12/13/16, 11:54 AM - Wow, this is just so off the number of times I've had this wine. Provenance, please?

• justburg commented:

  12/13/16, 11:01 PM - I wouldn't say the bottle is flawed or tired, just not in a good phase, which shouldn't be the case since this is a 21 year old wine. You obviously have had more experience than me in tasting Roumier, but from my previous notes (if you've seen them), I'm generally not the biggest fan of his wines. But again, I rate/judge wines on what's in the bottle, rather than by biasness.

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