Tasting Notes
Wine Advocate 86-88
The 2014 Bourgogne Rouge, which is completely destemmed, has a ripe and quite opulent bouquet with kirsch and orange sorbet aromas. The palate is supple in the mouth with sweet tannin, candied orange peel with a juicy red cherry finish. Just a delicious, straightforward generic red Burgundy to enjoy over the next five or so years. Whenever I meet Christophe Roumier, I get the impression of a Burgundy superstar in the eye of a storm. Around him, the world over, Roumier is the Holy Grail for collectors bidding astronomical sums for bottles that bear his family name. There is a cavalcade of visitors yearning to tour his cellars and meet the man…just to look at his barrel-and-a-bit of Musigny would be enough. And Christophe himself? Well, he just the usual down to earth, self-effacing gentleman that he always is and always will be. He’s just concerned with his vines and his winery. All the hullabaloo out there beyond Chambolle? Well, sometimes I think he would prefer if it could all be left to the likes of DRC and Leroy. Christophe never asked to be an icon.
Anticipated maturity: 2016-2021
JancisRobinson.com 16+
Very deep crimson. Juicy in the extreme and polished.
Anticipated maturity: 2016-2020
