2010 Chambertin Clos de Beze
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Bright, saturated deep red. Incredible multidimensional nose combines cherry, raspberry, gunflint, crushed rock, flowers and oak spices; youthfully reserved but already remarkably complex. Thick but magically light on its feet, with penetrating red fruit flavors framed and carried by explosive salty minerality. This wonderfully vibrant, refined wine is showing no sign of shutting down but it's hard to imagine that it won't go through a sullen stage on its way to peak maturity in 12 to 15 years. The sweet but firmly structured finish saturates the palate with red fruits, minerals and spices.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2010 Chambertin-Clos de Bèze bursts from the glass with an exciting mélange of blackberries, cassis, graphite, violets and exotic spices. The Bèze is the most exuberant wine in the Rousseau lineup. Black cherries, spices and licorice develop in the glass, adding considerable weight and texture as the wine continues to flesh out. Firm, massive tannins provide the perfect foil for the exuberant fruit. Today the Bèze is massive, but it should be spectacular once the tannins start melting away.
(this fruit was picked four days before the Chambertin): Bright red-ruby. Knockout nose combines blackberry, blueberry, black cherry and violet. Dense and thick but weightless on entry, then impeccably balanced and sharply delineated in the middle but more backward than the Clos-Saint-Jacques. Wonderfully tangy dark fruit flavors are complicated by minerals and bitter chocolate. From pale, marly soil, notes Rousseau. Finishes intense, long and youthfully tight, but with real nobility to the tannins.
About the producer
Based in Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine Armand Rousseau is one of Burgundy’s most famous estates. Revered for making unearthly expressions of Pinot Noir, the estate’s wines are some of the most collectable in the world.