August 22, 2021 - Mainly apple, lemon, good supporting acidity, stony. Extremely nice wine, in a perfect shape, with the usual oxidative elements which are always present in this cuvée. Unfortunately my last one.
February 3, 2021 - WOW! What a brilliant wine. Almost 20 years old and still with an incredible freshness and clarity in the aromas. Overly complex in mouth and nose, very nice, ripe and at the same time animating acidity. Beautiful interplay of yellow apples, ripe pears, some shortbread. Its age is best guessed by the complexity and the wonderful harmony, it does not show obvious age notes. A wine to meditate on, so beautiful, so graceful, so balanced and yet with a lot of character.
September 20, 2020 - Wow, this wine is so intense. Golden colored but searingly bone dry. Starting to take on some honeycomb and lanolin mature notes but there is just so much chalky limestone covering the lemon. It's really interesting how the white is the most reflective of vintage among the Rougeard wines. I find the reds really consistent from both a style and quality perspective from vintage to vintage. The white is all over the place and this is a perfect representation of 2002: bracing and intense with a driving mineral finish. Fascinating.
January 5, 2020 - Had with friends
The nose was really nice with strong tropical fruit, honey, tea, little shells.
Palate had lots of honey, citrus, cream, nuts, and some tea with some minerals.
The finish was long and there was really great acidity for a wine of this age.
Very nice bottle of wine.
January 5, 2020 - A study on contrasts here with this beauty. Nose shows bold, waxy, honeyed, lamp oil notes, along with lots of tea, chalk, crushed shells, wild green herbs. The texture is plump and gorgeous, but the acidity is racy and lip-smacking, and the wine is full of life and verve throughout. The apricot and lemon fruit is still lively, and balanced nicely with nougat, honey, almond elements. I love the chalk dust, oyster brine, minerals and white tea elements. So alive, yet integrated well with all these years. Really special stuff.
October 14, 2018 - Light gold. Very lacy and fine. A little lemon, a little oak. Very easy to drink. Great with sushi. Shear elegance.
July 18, 2018 - Soupy, pate-like bouquet. Taste so intense that it looked almost like it had bubbles. Wow, the concentration here is unreal again. Very fat and charming.
June 20, 2018 - Best Breze I've had. Great depth and structure here. Took a good two hours of air to really show and have fruit emerge. I think this is in a very good spot now.
June 15, 2018 - Yellow straw. Reduction, floral. Higher acidity than 2001.
August 26, 2017 - This is a fantastic bottle, I was so glad to have kept it for so long ... no one around the table was able to guess the origin ...