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Chambertin 2009

Gevrey Chambertin / Rousseau

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Tasting Notes

The 2009 Chambertin Grand Cru is relatively youthful in appearance. It has a vibrant nose with kirsch, orange sorbet, rose petals and light Earl Grey aromas. It becomes increasingly floral and complex in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with an attractive tertiary quality and a healthy white pepper dose. Very harmonious with a touch of chalkiness. I would have liked more depth, though real elegance is in situ and seems to grow in the glass. Tasted at the 2009 horizontal at Club 1243.

Score: 95

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2023-2045 01 March 2023

The 2009 Chambertin is breathtaking in its beauty. It boasts gorgeous textural depth and richness in its eternal, endless layers of fruit. This is a totally seamless wine that captures the style of the year and the personality of the vineyard. A sweet note of cassis lingers on the finessed finish.

Score: 95

Antonio Galloni, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2019-2039 26 April 2012

The 2009 Chambertin is breathtaking in its beauty. It boasts gorgeous textural depth and richness in its eternal, endless layers of fruit. This is a totally seamless wine that captures the style of the year and the personality of the vineyard. A sweet note of cassis lingers on the finessed finish.

Score: 95

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2019-2039 01 April 2012

The 2009 Chambertin impresses for its vivid textural brilliance and beautifully articulated fruit. All of the elements come together with notable grace in this perfumed, delicate Chambertin. There is plenty of freshness and aromatic complexity to balance the ripeness of the fruit. Clean, saline notes add considerable freshness on the finish.

Score: 94 - 96

Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2024-2049 01 May 2011

Dark red. Ineffable aromas of red berries, mint, crushed stone and flowers. At once silky and taut, with outstanding inner-mouth energy and perfume to the powerful, penetrating flavors of berries, flowers, spices and minerals. Seems to combine the aromatic perfume of the Clos Saint-Jacques with the tension and spine of the Clos de Beze--and to take them to a higher level. This remarkable wine, utterly harmonious from the outset, saturates the palate with extract on the unflagging finish. It's nearly impossible to spit this. Give this 10 or 12 years and then enjoy it over the following decade or two. Remarkably, this wine was made from a healthy yield of nearly 40 hectoliters per hectare.

Score: 97

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 March 2012

(13.3% alcohol, with a pH around 3.6) Good full red. Cool, laid-back, aristocratic nose offers ineffable notes of rose petal, spices and minerals. Sappy and dense but weightless, with a wonderfully three-dimensional texture and a penetrating spiciness. Full, round, perfectly balanced wine that fills the mouth with perfume and stains the palate on the back end, without leaving any impression of weight. The finish is extraordinarily long yet remarkably subtle. These vines produced nearly 40 hectoliters per hectare in 2009, which Rousseau described as rare.

Score: 95 - 98

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2011

This is also ultra-pure and densely fruited with notes of anise, mint, wet stone and a sauvage hint that introduces intensely earthy and mineral-driven big-bodied flavors that are rich, powerful, serious and densely concentrated, all wrapped in a silky, palate staining, explosive and colossally persistent finish. This is actually relatively expressive and approachable for a young Cham yet the balance and harmony is present for this to age for decades. A brilliant effort and one of the best vintages ever for this justifiably revered wine.

Score: 98

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2029+ 10 January 2012