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Clive Coates describes Domaine Georges Roumier as ‘Chambolles with a difference – wines which are substantial, even sturdy, as well as velvety and elegant.  This is one of the longest-established estate-bottling domaines in the Cote d’Or and one of the very best of all.’  The wines at Roumier are said to have reached greater heights under the watchful eye of Chrisophe Roumier than those of his father Jean-Marie or his grandfather Georges.  Christophe Roumier is quoted as saying, ‘We don’t make Pinot Noir, we make wines from terroir which expresses itself through Pinot Noir’.

Vint Description Cl ? Cs Bt Cs Bt +
2005

Chambolle Musigny Les Cras

 75 IB 1   1650 -
Tasting Notes:
The 2005 Chambolle-Musigny Les Cras smells of ripe blackberry, raspberry, forest floor and chalk dust. A polished, creamy, yet palpably chalky and brightly fresh-fruited palate offers a sumptuous saturation of black and red fruits with inner-mouth aromatic accents of cherry pit, pistachio, flowers and citrus zest. This shows wonderful primary fruit intensity and energy, exciting length, and the promise of continued poise and polish for at least another 10-12 years. One senses that Christophe Roumier considers 2005 a high point of his career, and my visit with him was among the high points of my recent trip. He describes this as Ùa classic vintage lending itself to very calm, classic vinification,Î which given the opportunities afforded by perfectly healthy, firm, dry, ripe fruit involved triage almost solely to remove ladybugs, and included around 25% whole clusters in the fermenters at the Premier Cru level and 50% at that of Grand Cru. Wine Advocate # 170 Apr 2007
Parker Points: 93-94
Drinking Period:  -
2005 Morey St Denis Clos de la Bussieres 75 DP   2 - 60
2005 Ruchottes Chambertin 75 IB 1   5000 -
2002 Bonnes Mares 75 DP   1 - 350
2002 Musigny 75 DP   2 - 1950
2001 Musigny 75 DP   1 - 1250
1999 Musigny 75 DP   2 - 1950
1998 Bonnes Mares 75 IB   6 - 275
1996 Chambolle Musigny Les Cras 75 DP   1 - 100
1993 Chambolle Musigny Les Cras 75 DP   3 - 165
1993 Bonnes Mares 75 IB 1   9450 -
1993 Chambolle Musigny Les Cras 75 IB   8 - 165