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Clos de la Roche 2008

Clos de la Roche / Rousseau

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Tasting Notes

Pale-medium red. Musky cherry, fresh herbs, brown spices and menthol on the nose and palate; more primary than the Mazy-Chambertin. Then sweeter and larger-scaled but backward today and showing a medicinal austerity. I like this wine's intensity of flavor and palate presence. Finishes with a broad, fine dusting of tannins that spread out to saturate the palate and leave the taste buds vibrating.

Score: 90

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 March 2011

New leather, black tea, and bright cherry and plum scent Rousseau’s 2008 Clos de La Roche, which comes to the palate bright and with tart chew of fruit skins and smokiness of black tea serving for invigoration in a finish of impressive persistence. Less exuberant and multi-faceted today than the corresponding Mazy, this also displays more aggressive - faintly gum-numbing - tannins than the several wines that preceded it in the present line-up.

Score: 89 - 90

David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com 01 June 2010

A surprisingly high-toned nose of cranberry and raspberry trimmed in a bit of warm earth introduces very forward yet precise flavors that are quite round and supple yet deliver excellent authority and impressive depth on the balanced and lingering finish. This is not a big example or even especially muscular but it's harmonious and should age well.

Score: 90 - 93

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2018+ 30 January 2010

Bright crimson. Firm, zesty nose. Polished tannins and extremely delicate fruit. Really quite lean and fine and restrained. This wine has been going to the gym! Mineral and very strongly marked by 2008. (17.5+ Points)

Score: 17 - 18

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2014-2022 19 January 2010