1990 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin-Clos de Bèze

Community Tasting Notes (61) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  1/7/2024 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Wow. It’s incredible to think this is 34 years old. The dominant factor was soy and worchester sauce. Seriously dark in the glass and incredibly well stored from the freshness. The Gevrey structure was evident as this was a masculine wine with a long finish. Worked well with charred lamb. From BV

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  8/13/2023 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 96 Points

  A towering masterpiece in absolutely perfect condition. One of the absolute pinnacles of red Burgundy. Some volatile acidity on the first glass which quickly blew off. No decanting. Impressively powerful with a black fruited core still. Incredible purity and precision. Booming red cherry fruit, subtle spice, a lot of primary character still with elegant secondary nuance, no signs of tertiary soily or mushroomy notes or anything that advanced. Palate is striking, good bottles of this still have a decade or more of runway. Of anything we probably drank this two quickly over a couple hours as I suspect this would just continue to blossom. Classic, refined, polished. Pristine bottle, perfect seal on the cork with an audible pop. 96 - 97.

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  5/9/2023 - RobinTeo Likes this wine: 99 Points

  THAT Rousseau night (IT Shanghai): An incredible and special bottle that is definitely at apogee. Light red in glass and rocked to an fantastic opening of with wild strawberries, blueberries, kirsh, spice, earth and dried roses. Smoke, black tea, plums and cloves come through on the palate in spades with lushness and power amidst balance and finesse. A very serious wine indeed with great concentration, a velvety/silky mouthfeel and great density. We visited this 3 hours later and was showing simply just so sensual that you just want to hug all night long.

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  2/12/2023 - _water.into.wine_ Likes this wine: 98 Points

  A few years since I have tried this and just as special as I remember it. Maybe just a touch more complex which maybe adds an extra point. A light ruby with clear bricking and a developed nose with some light perfume, red fruits and mushrooms. The palate is delicate and fully resolved. Served blind and we guess 90s burgundy, albeit I thought could be Vosne/Chambolle as more feminine than masculine. Perfect balance and harmony at this point. Hard to imagine aged burgundy being better than this. From BV

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  5/19/2022 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 98 Points

  From a perfectly kept bottle the 1990 was the stand-out among many great bottles that evening with main theme of Rousseau Beze. Served side by side the also great 1989 it was this effortless ageless beauty of immense fruit purity, fantastic polished and sweet lush blue fruits, velvet tannins and immense length. A wine you wished to kiss your lips as often as possible in your life. Terrific stuff. But all the other Bezes were great that night too just to point out. And if you are in the mood for more old school rusticity the 89 would be my choice of poison.

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