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The 2000 Clos Saint-Jacques from Rousseau is forward and quite delicate wine. In the nose fine red fruit, hints of sous-bois - matured and secondary with a nice earthy minerality. On the palate airy red fruit - medium weight and quite long for the vintage. A refined and expressive wine - pure, …
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Burgundy is a facinating place, and even very famous producers like Domaine Armand Rousseau have "secret" wines that are not sold commercially. We already covered the Gevrey-Chambertin Clos du Chateau, but there is actually another even more unknown Rousseau bottling ... the Bourgogne …
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Domaine Armand Rousseau is one of the most well known and prestigious domaines in Burgundy. The wines from this Domaine are known all over the world ... except one almost "secret" wine. It is a Gevrey-Chambertin like many other wines from Rousseau ... and the first vintage was 2012 ... it's made …
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The 04 Clos Saint-Jacques from Rousseau is still somewhat backward and 04ish ... In the nose dark berry fruit - tight with green hints and a earthy minerality - reather restrained currently. On the palate quite weighty for the vintage with a rather dense dark fruit with some green notes. Need time …
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The Clos de la Roche 2004 from Rousseau is a surprisingly lightfooted and delightful effort for the vintage. Quite light in color with lovely red organic fruit in the nose - offering fine notes of cherries and cherry stones. On the palate lightfooted and quite delicate with lovely red fruit - quite …
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