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6.9% of All Fine WineCritics Scores
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Rousseau’s 2005 Chambertin – assembled from four parcels, three of them in relatively cool, well-ventilated portions of this cru – offers high-toned aromas of plum distillate, tea and marzipan, but on the palate, chalk, raw beef, dried plum, bitter-sweet black fruits and roasted fennel flavors combine for a low-registered richness. This is the creamiest, plushest, most voluminous, and perhaps in the final analysis deepest wine of this year’s Rousseau collection, with a savory meatiness, chalky minerality and a well of fruit impossible to plumb at such an early stage in what will certainly be three or more decades of testimony to the true greatness of this famous site. (DS)
Stephen Tanzer
Good full red. Pure aromas of dark, wild raspberry, candied cherry, smoke, game and mint, all lifted by an ineffable floral perfume. Wonderfully rich, fat and voluminous, combining great sappy cut with an utterly spherical, silky texture (yes, my note says this is possible). The rising finish features great palate-staining length, a chewy impression of extract and endless subtlety. This extremely intense wine shut down in my glass, but was once again spectacular when I retasted it a few hours later.
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Medium-full colour. Closed-in but rich, concentrated nose. Good grip here. Medium-full body. Ripe, balanced, fresh and very profound and elegant. Exceptionally fine, complex fruit. Good as his Clos de Bèze is, this is, as always, just that bit superior. A great wine.
John Gilman
The 2005 Rousseau Chambertin is another monument in the cellars this year, and it too delivers profound complexity and utter purity. The bouquet is another surreal mélange of red plums, black cherries, red and black raspberries, cocoa, beautiful soil tones, vanillin oak and a haunting and pungent note of violet at the high end. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep and the epitome of refinement and elegance, with its big core of fruit and powerful intensity woven seamlessly into a wine that exudes weightlessness. The finish cascades across the palate, with bright acids, velvety tannins and impeccable focus and balance. Just a brilliant bottle with great tang and grip on the endless finish.
Burghound.com
There is still some unabsorbed wood present on the notably ripe yet brooding nose that evidences a superb range of spice elements along with fresh black currant, plum, earth and game nuances. The superbly concentrated and overtly powerful big-bodied flavors are even bigger, richer and more mineral-inflected than those of the imposingly scaled '05 Clos de Bèze (see herein) while delivering a full frontal palate assault on the hugely long finish. The Rousseau style is one of refinement and elegance and that is true even with this most masculine of burgundies yet in 2005 it would be fair to call this wine butch as it's definitely built along the lines of a 'take no prisoners' style. As one might reasonably intuit from the description, this is nowhere near ready and I would not expect it to be for at least another 15 years and 20+ would not surprise me. A monument in the making. Note that the most recent bottle displayed a very subtle but not invisible touch of brett though it is the only time that I have noticed it so my score offers the benefit of the doubt.
Burghound
There is still some unabsorbed wood present on the notably ripe yet brooding nose that evidences a superb range of spice elements along with fresh black currant, plum, earth and game nuances. The superbly concentrated and overtly powerful big-bodied flavors are even bigger, richer and more mineral-inflected than those of the imposingly scaled '05 Clos de Bèze (see herein) while delivering a full frontal palate assault on the hugely long finish. The Rousseau style is one of refinement and elegance and that is true even with this most masculine of burgundies yet in 2005 it would be fair to call this wine butch as it's definitely built along the lines of a 'take no prisoners' style. As one might reasonably intuit from the description, this is nowhere near ready and I would not expect it to be for at least another 15 years and 20+ would not surprise me. A monument in the making. Note that the most recent bottle displayed a very subtle but not invisible touch of brett though it is the only time that I have noticed it so my score offers the benefit of the doubt.