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Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Domaine Armand Rousseau 2008

Tasting Notes

This is every bit as elegant as the Clos St. Jacques but even deeper and broader with incredibly complex and refined red berry fruit, plum and violet aromas that are relatively cool and are in keeping with the balanced, refined and mouth coating flavors that possess superb depth and excellent finishing intensity on the explosive and gorgeously persistent finish. This is a really lovely '08 that should improve for out to two decades.

95
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (41), January 2011
96+
Antonio Galloni, Wine Advocate (194), May 2011

This is every bit as elegant as the Clos St. Jacques but even deeper and broader with incredibly complex and refined red berry fruit, plum and violet aromas that are relatively cool and are in keeping with the balanced, refined and mouth coating flavors that possess superb depth and excellent finishing intensity. There is a touch of acidity that pokes through on the finish but the underlying material here appears to be so strong that I am reasonably confident that this will harmonize before it's bottled.

92/94
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, January 2010
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