Armand Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru 2007 750ml

Burghound.com, Jul 03, 2014
A relatively high-toned and attractively spicy nose is composed primarily of various red berry fruit scents together with hints of underbrush and earth. There is plenty of vibrancy to the medium-bodied middle weight flavors that possess both good detail and a lovely minerality that continues onto the sappy and seductively textured finale that delivers excellent persistence. This is very much a creature of its vintage, which is to say a lighter wine relative to virtually all of the other vintages of the decade with the exception of the 2004. While this should certainly reward a few more years of bottle age, it would not be complete infanticide to open a bottle now.

As years go by, Armand Rousseau continues to enlarge his Domain with the purchase of more Grands Crus: Mazy Chambertin in 1937, Mazoyeres Chambertin in 1940, Chambertin in 1943 and 1956.
The Clos Saint Jacques is bought in 1954 in his son Charles's name who joins his father in 1945. In 1959, after Armand Rousseau's death, Charles Rousseau is at the head of a Domain, continue developing rapidly. He then decides to turn principally towards export. He develops the exchanges first with European countries, then to Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Brazil, etc. and lastly Asia in the 1970's.
In 1982, Eric, his son joined the team after his studies. He starts in the vineyards and introduces new techniques as green harvest, leaf removal and a mechanic work of the soil without insecticides or chemical additions. He orientates the Domaine near a viticulture more biologic and get involve with the vinification. He keeps a traditional way of winemaking with the minimum of manipulations.
The wines from Domaine Armand Rousseau have improve over the years but it has always kept the same spirit as when Armand and Charles were making it. The Rousseau hand is a style of wine very recognizable. The wines are typically Burgundian wines: Fine, Elegant and a honest, truly expression of the vineyards through the Pinot grape and a little piece of the winemaker.

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