Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
The 2001 Chambertin Grand Cru from Rossignol-Trapet has a clean and precise, quite perfumed and floral bouquet with lovely redcurrant and cranberry scents, an undertow of mineralité that comes through with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, crisp acidity, fresh and precise with impressive tension. It is neither a powerful nor long-lived Chambertin, but it is very well crafted and yielding more pleasure than most at 17 years of age. Tasted at Sarah Marsh’s 2000 and 2001 horizontal tasting.
Critic scores
Average Score
Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
More reviews and scores
The 2001 Chambertin Grand Cru from Rossignol-Trapet was clearly fashioned from promising raw materials, but it is dominated by an excessive application of new wood. Notes of medicine cabinet and raw new oak mingle with hints of dried fruit, introducing a wine with nice juicy energy, sadly dominated by wood tannins that clamp down on the gums.
Deeply shaded, healthy garnet. Serious, nuanced nose. Some heady liquorice notes. Both sweet and racy and really rather impressive! Fine tannins still there but great undertow of exciting grand cru fruit. Great layers. Energetic and muscular. Proper stuff. Just rather dry tannins on the end. (JR)
Cask sample At this stage, smudgier than the Latricières. Big boned – a rugby player rather than a dancer. (JR)