Rather spicy Pinot Noir aromas, so I guessed it was a Vosne. Lovely deep and seductive PN aromas with spicy notes. A wine for the nose! Delicious pure and soft fruit on the palate. Started, however, to deteriorate somewhat after a couple of hours in the glass.
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Another great bottle, and yet in some ways so different from the 2007 M-G poured next to it. Whereas that was more about power, this is delicate; the nose is pure cherries which wafts from the glass. It's so pure, and shows what Roumier's wines can do with the right time. The palate is very pure clean fruit that I don't think is quite ready yet, but honestly, smelling it was most of the joy. Colin left his untouched for half an hour and he made the right call.
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Sexy and racy nose that is very stylistically Roumier, but also with some earth and funk about it. Much more showy than the ‘02 Rousseau Ruchottes alongside. Straightforwardly delicious red cherry palate, texturally soft. Feeling like this is in an ideal drinking window at the moment but that there is more downside than upside going forward as this didn’t have the density and power of the Rousseau, even though this was the more showy wine tonight.
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Some funk on the nose required decanting. Light musty aromas and just a touch of faint berry. Palate is light, mossy dried red berries. Kind of uninspiring and lacking any real verve. It's just okay and certainly not worth the tariff. At 20 years this seems past its peak. CT drinking window thru 2060? We'll certainly both be long gone by then.
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Seductive nose: tropical rainstorm, vanilla, musk, opens in the glass still, after 2 hour decant, sweaty sox on a Victorias Secret model. Regrettably, this fades in mid palate and finishes shockingly simple and uninteresting. Makes you exclaim: "What the hell just happened, where'd she go?"
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Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru Dinner (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): A super yummy wine. This had a seriously sexy nose right from the start - red cherries, toast, earth and spice, some sweet floral accents - absolutely lovely. The palate was wonderful too. Sweet and fleshy, yet pure and transparent at the same time, with beautifully deep flavours of red cherries seasoned with spice and violets. An absolutely lovely mouthful. Not quite as complex as one or two of the other Ruchottes bottlings on the night perhaps, but this was pure deliciousness - a wonderfully drinkable, almost sexy expression of the terroir. Yum! This was just about the right time to drink the wine I think - unusually for a 1999, I am not sure it has the chops to really age into the long term.
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Chez W, decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, translucent red, leggy, youthful; aristocratic multi dimensional nose, black, fruit, spice, game, mineral, and more; surprisingly full, very long, persistent, pure and fresh, less developed than nose, grip and balance, will improve for decades, but attractive now. Scope to improve from current VF (18.5).
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The '99 Ruchottes-Chambertin is still so youthfully tight with crystalline red fruits, crushed stone, hints of forest floor and dried flowers on the nose. Angular textures gave way to amazingly pure fruit and brisk acidity with inner floral tones that lasted throughout the refined and youthful finish. You can only judge this wine on potential, yet I'm very excited to see where it's headed.
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Pretty red fruits and nice earthy appeal. Tense dry earthy flavors and great dark spice. Slightly hard, but wonderfully nuanced. Chewy and rich. Lovely.
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Koffmans- drunk side by side with the Rousseau version. This wine clear clean bottle still looking young and on the nose a bit rustic strawberries. Medium weight, somewhat closed, older school example, needs more time
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Saturday night wines: Blind. Slight bricking, dark; dark deep fruit, smoke, flint, complex nose with some tobacco; long finish, verging on being complex, obviously very young. I left it a glass for 5-6 hours and there was some development (albeit overrun by some spectacular wines later)
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Rousseau Ruchottes for Pebbles (The Ledbury, London): Mid ruby. Quite dense. Slightly polished nose. Reasonably leggy, denser, fuller. Served blind with a flight of Rousseau Ruchottes, I guess 98 Rousseau Chamb. A little tight and slightly clipped at the moment. Time will tell ***(*)?
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Big black fruit on nose with meaty aromas, but not (yet) particularly friendly or accessible on palate. This needed 3 hours in a decanter. Clearly very good potential.
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At Saturday tasting table at Knightsbridge. Excellent structure, great fruit, fine dusty tannins. Lovely red fruits with the hint of some secondary flavors. Profile was a little more producer than terroir in that the wine was more similar to the Roumier Bonnes Mares that we had previously, than a Gevrey. Finish was a little short for a Grand Cru from such a great vintage, but overall an excellent wine.
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10/30/2021 - AudunG wrote: 94 Points
Rather spicy Pinot Noir aromas, so I guessed it was a Vosne. Lovely deep and seductive PN aromas with spicy notes. A wine for the nose! Delicious pure and soft fruit on the palate. Started, however, to deteriorate somewhat after a couple of hours in the glass.
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8/31/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
Another great bottle, and yet in some ways so different from the 2007 M-G poured next to it. Whereas that was more about power, this is delicate; the nose is pure cherries which wafts from the glass. It's so pure, and shows what Roumier's wines can do with the right time. The palate is very pure clean fruit that I don't think is quite ready yet, but honestly, smelling it was most of the joy. Colin left his untouched for half an hour and he made the right call.
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8/9/2020 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
Sexy and racy nose that is very stylistically Roumier, but also with some earth and funk about it. Much more showy than the ‘02 Rousseau Ruchottes alongside. Straightforwardly delicious red cherry palate, texturally soft. Feeling like this is in an ideal drinking window at the moment but that there is more downside than upside going forward as this didn’t have the density and power of the Rousseau, even though this was the more showy wine tonight.
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5/18/2019 - brigcampbell wrote:
Some funk on the nose required decanting. Light musty aromas and just a touch of faint berry. Palate is light, mossy dried red berries. Kind of uninspiring and lacking any real verve. It's just okay and certainly not worth the tariff. At 20 years this seems past its peak. CT drinking window thru 2060? We'll certainly both be long gone by then.
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3/5/2019 - OenoEd wrote: 92 Points
Seductive nose: tropical rainstorm, vanilla, musk, opens in the glass still, after 2 hour decant, sweaty sox on a Victorias Secret model. Regrettably, this fades in mid palate and finishes shockingly simple and uninteresting. Makes you exclaim: "What the hell just happened, where'd she go?"
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2/18/2018 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru Dinner (Yan, National Gallery, Singapore): A super yummy wine. This had a seriously sexy nose right from the start - red cherries, toast, earth and spice, some sweet floral accents - absolutely lovely. The palate was wonderful too. Sweet and fleshy, yet pure and transparent at the same time, with beautifully deep flavours of red cherries seasoned with spice and violets. An absolutely lovely mouthful. Not quite as complex as one or two of the other Ruchottes bottlings on the night perhaps, but this was pure deliciousness - a wonderfully drinkable, almost sexy expression of the terroir. Yum! This was just about the right time to drink the wine I think - unusually for a 1999, I am not sure it has the chops to really age into the long term.
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2/1/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 96 Points
Chez W, decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, translucent red, leggy, youthful; aristocratic multi dimensional nose, black, fruit, spice, game, mineral, and more; surprisingly full, very long, persistent, pure and fresh, less developed than nose, grip and balance, will improve for decades, but attractive now. Scope to improve from current VF (18.5).
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3/14/2017 - BradE wrote:
Still impenetrable, and hard to decipher. Hold on to these.
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3/8/2017 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 93 Points
The '99 Ruchottes-Chambertin is still so youthfully tight with crystalline red fruits, crushed stone, hints of forest floor and dried flowers on the nose. Angular textures gave way to amazingly pure fruit and brisk acidity with inner floral tones that lasted throughout the refined and youthful finish. You can only judge this wine on potential, yet I'm very excited to see where it's headed.
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8/3/2016 - KenK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pretty red fruits and nice earthy appeal. Tense dry earthy flavors and great dark spice. Slightly hard, but wonderfully nuanced. Chewy and rich. Lovely.
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4/16/2014 - reichken wrote: 93 Points
Koffmans- drunk side by side with the Rousseau version. This wine clear clean bottle still looking young and on the nose a bit rustic strawberries. Medium weight, somewhat closed, older school example, needs more time
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1/18/2014 - LWI wrote: 93 Points
Saturday night wines: Blind. Slight bricking, dark; dark deep fruit, smoke, flint, complex nose with some tobacco; long finish, verging on being complex, obviously very young. I left it a glass for 5-6 hours and there was some development (albeit overrun by some spectacular wines later)
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3/1/2013 - -E- wrote: flawed
Leflaive vertikal: (Blind) Gone
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10/28/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 91 Points
Very young still - bury this.
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6/7/2011 - SimonG wrote:
Rousseau Ruchottes for Pebbles (The Ledbury, London): Mid ruby. Quite dense. Slightly polished nose. Reasonably leggy, denser, fuller. Served blind with a flight of Rousseau Ruchottes, I guess 98 Rousseau Chamb. A little tight and slightly clipped at the moment. Time will tell ***(*)?
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6/1/2011 - reichken wrote: 90 Points
bottle wasnt singing
needs more time
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4/15/2011 - reichken wrote: 91 Points
Deep dark color. Very primary with high tonnes. Big bold but a bit polished. Young. Guess we see in a few years which way she goes
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2/10/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Big black fruit on nose with meaty aromas, but not (yet) particularly friendly or accessible on palate. This needed 3 hours in a decanter. Clearly very good potential.
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12/18/2010 - LBBURGJUNKIE wrote: 92 Points
At Saturday tasting table at Knightsbridge. Excellent structure, great fruit, fine dusty tannins. Lovely red fruits with the hint of some secondary flavors. Profile was a little more producer than terroir in that the wine was more similar to the Roumier Bonnes Mares that we had previously, than a Gevrey. Finish was a little short for a Grand Cru from such a great vintage, but overall an excellent wine.
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