In Bond Fine Wine. 2015 Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze, Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy, France. Grand Cru • Red Burgundy in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 98–100/100 (NM). Drinking window: 2027+. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
William Kelley (WK) — 97/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 27/04/2018
The 2015 Chambertin-Clos de B'ze Grand Cru is spectacular, wafting from the glass with a dramatic bouquet of sweet grilled meat, red and black fruit, candied peel and rich soil. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and powerful, with a lavishly gourmand attack that evokes the 2009 rendition, but this quickly segues into the mid-palate of an altogether more tautly structural, serious wine…
Allen Meadows (BH) — 97/100 · Burghound, 15/01/2018 · Drink 2035+
Once again the wood treatment is in evidence but it's by no means intrusive as it easily allows for the clear expression of the plum, black cherry, lavender, violet and tea aromas. The exceptionally rich and impressively dense broad-shouldered flavors also exhibit excellent minerality and almost as much power on the massively long finish. As is usually the case when one compares these two wines,…
Neal Martin (NM) — 95/100 · Vinous, 01/11/2018 · Drink 2027-2060
The 2015 Chambertin Clos-de-B'ze Grand Cru has to address some reduction issues at first, although there is plenty of brambly red berry fruit, cranberry and pomegranate on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin and layers of red and black fruit infused with crushed stone and veins of blue fruit. There is wonderful harmony and tension here, and real precision and intensity tow…