France

Chambertin Grand Cru

Light

Cork

An even older treat followed. I’ll spare you the primary jottings this time, but in colour this was the lightest and most translucent wine on the table. Its aromatic architecture is outstanding: one of those wine scents which defies belief - it seems to set before you the reassurance of a moment in time and of a comforting psychological state rather than the simplicity of a mere allusive repertoire. These scents made me think again of day’s end, of the respiring countryside and the relief of having reached the warmth of evening without mishap – though I guess I could have noted leather, raspberry, mushrooms and smoke in place of all that, too. On the palate the wine is intense, deep and fresh, not actually 'warm' at all, but energetic and lifted, darting, and with its innate complexities now resolved into the kind of harmonious whole which almost makes you forget the wine has innate complexities. According to Frank Ward, this wine 'didn’t show well for 25 years,' – and, just a decade beyond that, this was his last bottle. Thank you, Frank.

Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

Domaine Armand Rousseau, Chambertin Grand Cru, Burgundy, France, 1983

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An even older treat followed. I’ll spare you the primary jottings this time, but in colour this was the lightest and most transl

Domaine Armand Rousseau, Chambertin Grand Cru, 1983

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