美味しいワインと出会う旅

エマニュエル・ルジェ　ヴォーヌ・ロマネ［2006］　Emmanuel Rouget Vosne Romanee 2006　CP94

明らかに08や07より濃いですね。05よりは薄いですが・・・

06が良い年だと言われている理由が良く分かるワインです。

若い頃のリキュール感は薄れて来ましたが、良い果実味があってポッチャリ系の美味しいワインです。香りもラズベリーよりブラックベリーの香りが強く、色も濃いめです。

これからドンドン良くなって行くのだと思います。

良いヴォーヌらしい滑らかさと、ふくよかさ、ミネラル感を持った素晴らしいワインです。

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2006 Emmanuel Rouget Vosne Romanee

Wine Advocate #186
Dec 2009 David Schildknecht (91-92) Drink: 2009 - 2016 $125 (125)
Rouget's 2006 Vosne-Romanee - assembled from five diverse parcels - boasts a palate-staining, ripe but not at all superficially sweet concentration of blackberry and cassis, tinged with bittersweet floral perfume, soy and suggestions of peat and roasted meat. This palpably dense but fine-grained Vosne finishes with emphatic intensity and vivacity as well as striking clarity of fruit to nuances of floral, mineral, and animal nature. Expect it to be worth waiting a few years for an enjoying at least through 2016.

Emmanuel Rouget was very pleased with the "unusually long evolution" of his youthful 2006s - which I last tasted on the eve of bottling - rendered possible not just by the frigid temperature of his relatively shallow cellars, he explained, but also by what for this vintage are impressively low pHs. Even after slight chaptalization, he says the present collection scarcely exceeds 13% alcohol. These factors no doubt help account for the balance of ripe flavors and textural polish with cut and vivacity that the 2006s here display, rendering them - as Rouget puts it - "more precise, fresh, and elegant" than his 2005s, in which respect they remind him of his 1996s. "If you compare them directly today, my 2005s almost taste heavy by comparison with these 2006s," he notes. Moreover, my own impression is that the current crop of wines has proven more resistant to the same levels of new oak - 50-100% - as were used on his 2005s (whereas the 2004s received nada). "I think that impression is on account of the acidity," of the 2006s, opines Rouget, adding "for me the acidity of Pinot is more important than the alcohol.