美味しいワインと出会う旅

市場在庫そろそろ少なくなってきたルソーの2006！ラスト在庫です！アルマン・ルソー／クロ・ド・ラ・ロッシュ［2006］ 750ml　CP94

これは凄いワインです。

濃いワインですが今飲んでも美味しいです。当然10年後も凄そうです。

アセロラのジャムですね。スパイシーさもあって甘さもあって、酸も綺麗です。

偉大なワインの1本だと思います。通常16000円ですが、上記のショップは12600円で売っています。これ安いです。買って下さい。後1本ですよ。

これぞルソーの06と言う味です。

寝かせれば出し汁がドンドン出て来るでしょう。

大地香とアセロラ、ルソーのオーラが出ています。

色は濃いめのルビー色、香りはアセロラ、ラズベリー、スパイス、ハーブ、赤身肉、味わいは濃密な果実味、高いアルコール感、優しく複雑なタンニン、余韻の綺麗な酸、全てがスケールが大きく立体的です。強いミネラルを感じます。

久々にブルゴーニュで感動しました。

2006 Domaine Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche

Wine Advocate # 186
Dec 2009 David Schildknecht 91 Drink: 2009 - 2017 $135-$238 (195)
Nutmeg, coriander, and fresh sour cherry aromas on the nose of Rousseau's 2006 Clos de La Roche usher in a fascinating palate, pungently spicy, tartly-fruited, and backed by an alkaline, saline, very marine sense of mineral abundance. The smoky, stony, and bitter-sweet elements in common with so many wines of this collection here steer clear of austerity thanks to the wine's sheer primary juiciness and the invigorative potential of its distinctive minerality. If tasted blind, I might well have picked it as a rarified expression of Clos St.-Denis. I expect this will be worth savoring over the next 6-8 years, but given the relative delicacy of its frame, I would want to monitor its evolution in case it seems a shame not to enjoy it sooner.

Since Eric Rousseau - as mentioned in my issue 170 run-down of his methodology - does not on principle utilize a sorting table, I imagined the aftermath of hail in 2006 presenting a special challenge to his pickers and to bottled quality, but it was one he and his team clearly surmounted. Clos de Beze, Griotte-, and Chapelle-Chambertin were the worst-effected, relates Rousseau, along with numerous of his village-level parcels. Potential alcohol levels are closer to 2003's record highs than they are to those of 2005, but the finished 2006s - while hardly as successful as their immediate predecessors - do not suffer any spirituous roughness or heat, and are thus free to effectively make their relatively light, bright, and in the best instances distinctive statements. Rousseau reports - and my limited opportunities for comparison confirm - that the initially rather austere and even brittle, disjointed personalities of these wines were ameliorated in the course of elevage, and the best of them have blossomed beautifully. (I was unable to taste several top wines here after bottling, so my notes on those are based on a representative sampling and blending from cask shortly before bottling.)