Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin

Andrew's Birthday Dinner 2025 : PnP. Very young, but integrated. Smooth and luxurious with a depth on the palate. Shows the warmer vintage with rounder dark fruits and layers. Just a baby.

2009 vintage

Wow. Classic Rousseau Chambertin that was drinking great after 6 hours of slow ox. Remained strong across the night. What more could any burgundy drinker want? Some more secondary characteristics will raise the score further.

2009 vintage

DC Wino did a nice job describing this wine. To me, it showed a glorious and voluptuous palate with plenty of emerging secondary flavor and a finish that had no end. You just want to hold this in your mouth and keep it there. Really terrific wine by one of the best producers in Burgundy, or anywhere for that matter.

2009 vintage

Nick’s 2024 Birthday lunch at Con and Marie’s place (Wellington, NZ) : Served in a pair double blind with the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. A complex, detailed bouquet of brown spices, chalky minerals, black cherries, cassis, warm earth and rose and violet florals. On palate, obviously relatively young, yet beautifully integrated and balanced. I had the wine as a Vosne-Romanee Grand Cru – and did not find any overt Gevrey-Chambertin character – but, at this level, I find the village …

2009 vintage

Very sexy and ripe with candied fruit, spice, vitamins and minerals. Great concentration but still primary as expected for an 09. It will most likely enter the beginning of its prime drinking window in 4-5 years.

2009 vintage

A great friend's visit to DC (The Capital Grille at Tysons corner, VA) : Medium expressive nose displaying unbelievably concentrated black fruit with a hint of red, blackberry concentrate, raspberry, caramel, grilled cep, tea, rose, dark spices, tree bark and earth. Exceptional concentration, slightly coiled super concentrated black fruit rich, dense and deeply tone but also showing excellent balance and harmony, perfect amount of acidity, medium earthy mineral, and a long concentrated black fruit driven finish with rose at the …

2009 vintage

Two friends sharing three bottles of wine - Palmetto Bluff (Hilton Head Island - Charlie's Coastal Bistro) : Youthful yet incredibly complex nose displaying super concentrated perfectly ripe black fruit, blackberry, blackberry concentrate, rose, lavender, espresso, cinnamon, liquid smoke, tea and mineral. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of perfectly ripe black fruit, rich and sweet but also showing perfect balance and detail, perfect amount of acidity, and mineral, and a seamless long concentrated black fruit driven floral finish with exotic …

2009 vintage

Anniversaire du Baron (Le Serpent) : Bouche pleine et concentrée, entre deux âges. Il est puissant et tannique, mais tout de même élégant, avec une grande longueur. C'est à peine un adolescent, il est jeune et profond, moins charmeur qu'en prime jeunesse, mais très prometteur à long terme. Revoir dans 5-10 ans. 94++ pts

2009 vintage

Burgundy Bachelor Party : So dark, dense, and rich but with the epic precision that Rousseau Chambertin seems to demonstrate more consistently than any other wine. There's no crime in drinking it now, save for the fact this will clearly metamorphosize into something even greater with time.

2009 vintage

Lovely but quite young. Even so, this showed better balance than 02 Beze today. Give this another decade and should be a showstopper.

2009 vintage

served 3 hours and 45 minutes after opening without decanting. really fragrant with sweet, lovely fruit.

2009 vintage

Opened at Otto e Mezzo in Hong Kong. P&P, though we waited for it to open in the Zalto. This was better than my expectations, given how Rousseaus tend to need age to open up fully. This was incredibly fragrant and approachable, despite having clear backbone and a power that was lurking behind the scenes. Honestly, an incredible treat. Likely to improve with a bit more time - I'd say give this another 5 years to see how it develops, …

2009 vintage

powerhouse of a vintage and still especially forceful even after a decade+. Just gobs of chunk intense dark fruit. Initially showed a fair touch of wood but after a couple hours of air it dissipated. Just memorizing how much is stuffed into the bottle, like a turkey about to burst open. Would have been far more accessible with a long decant but man that fruit starts to get like silk with that classic rousseau profile by the end of the …

2009 vintage

Nose of alcohol and strawberries. Massive palate, at this stage simply no finesse. Blind, more akin to a Chateauneuf than a Burgundy. Just waaaay too big and clunky at this stage, it needs at least 10, preferably 20, years in a cool cellar. Score based on pedigree, as it wasn't at that 93 point level tonight.

2009 vintage

Phenomenal. Best on day #2. Great balance and purity of fruit with outstanding length!

2009 vintage

This wine needed air. Initially it's a bit muted and clunky almost. Revisiting 2 hours in and the wine unfurls to show intense dark berry fruit, sous bois, the dense oak has mellowed and gained some sweetness. Balanced acidity, and overall it's a beauty.

2009 vintage

Big Burg Energy : Served double blind. This really improved with air, but initially, it came of a bit coarse to me. Over time, it began to come together and have that seamlessness and elegance that I associate with Rousseau. Definitely served too young, but man, what a great wine. Wish I could have really focused on this bottle and internalized it more, but too many wines at the table, which is a really first world problem to fret about.

2009 vintage

Beautiful nose of spice and raspberries. Still young but great potential. Drinkable now with a 3+ hour decant but clearly the best is yet to come.

2009 vintage

2021 New Year's Celebration Tasting (Private Cellar) : PNP into Zalto Burgundy glass ("Fruit" day): Pale ruby to the eyes. Red fruit driven, soy sauce like notes. Liquorice. Vosne Romanee like sweet spice notes. Finely textured. 94-95 points. Reserved for observations. Second round, more and more open indeed on palate. Third round, nose started to open now, more cherry cola notes, but on palate still less generous. Fourth round, on nose really opened up, good finish.

2009 vintage

The Triple Threat "165" Birthday Bash (65/60/40) (Minikahda Club, Mpls) : Medium ruby red color with a 5mm transitional margin. Same bottle as Chablis28; decanted as noted for an hour. Drank a glass over 90 minutes plus. Flighted with the '09 Charmes Chambertin which was quite impressive, this was in a class by itself. This is one of those wines I just sit there and keep mumbling wow, wow....Truly, this is a wow wine, one of those benchmark wines that …

2009 vintage

Well you only turn 65 once and I'm delighted to arrive in good health and blessed with my wife of 41yrs, two wonderful adult children, an amazing son in law, and two even more amazing grand boys 3 & 6. Then you add in many dear friends making me one of the luckiest men in the world. So to further mark the occasion I decided to open my favorite Burg producer's iconic Chambertin tonight. A btl gifted to me 6yrs …

2009 vintage

Superb wine great length. Got better and better and perfume fell over the sides of the glass. Strawberries and layers and layers A great wine but what a price. You could fill an interesting cellar for the cost of one bottle.

2009 vintage

Rousseau Dinner (WS New York) : What can I say? I love Rousseau Chambertin. Every bottle I come across, it is really a question of how good not is it good. The 09 is fantastic. Very drinkable and just chock full of all the Rousseau greatness.

2009 vintage

Indulgence..... : WHOA! Absolutely brilliant. Such complexity and seductiveness: high tone, touch of whole cluster complexity, cinnamon, grilled meat, earth and loaded with clean, perfectly ripe fruits. Endless layer of sweet ripe fruits, bitter sweet cocoa, mouth staining minerality and umami perfectly balanced by the lively acidity. You can feel the depth and penetrating of flavours on first sip then asking for the 2nd, the 3rd. I especially like the touch of wood spice infused violet inner perfume here. Never …

2009 vintage

Initially sexy as expected for an '09. Red cherry notes. Over time it tightened up vs. loosened up, and showed an iron/metal side. Overall very enjoyable, but somewhat less so than a recent 2009 Beze.

2009 vintage

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