3 bottles per lot
Details
Chambertin Grand Cru, Clos de Bèze--Vintage 2006
Côte de Nuits. Domaine-bottled: Armand Rousseau
Not in original carton
Tasting note: The Rousseau 2006 Chambertin Clos de Beze, while unlike their Chambertin hailed-on, is in a class by itself in this collection for sheer flavour intensity, as well as for obvious (but not obtrusively tannic) sense of structure and density. Ripe but tart blackberry, black cherry, and licorice are underlain by saline, meat stock, chalky, peaty undertones that carry into a multi-registered, reverberating, veritable organ chord of a finish. This fascinating contrast with its Chambertin sibling will no doubt be worth following for 12-15 years. Rousseau reports that the net yield after discarding fruit during harvest was a mere 15 hectoliters per hectare. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 186, December 2009
3 bottles per lot
Côte de Nuits. Domaine-bottled: Armand Rousseau
Not in original carton
Tasting note: The Rousseau 2006 Chambertin Clos de Beze, while unlike their Chambertin hailed-on, is in a class by itself in this collection for sheer flavour intensity, as well as for obvious (but not obtrusively tannic) sense of structure and density. Ripe but tart blackberry, black cherry, and licorice are underlain by saline, meat stock, chalky, peaty undertones that carry into a multi-registered, reverberating, veritable organ chord of a finish. This fascinating contrast with its Chambertin sibling will no doubt be worth following for 12-15 years. Rousseau reports that the net yield after discarding fruit during harvest was a mere 15 hectoliters per hectare. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate 186, December 2009
3 bottles per lot
Brought to you by
Antonia Essex