Red Wine: 1996 | Domaine Georges Roumier | Morey-Saint-Denis Premier Cru Clos de La Bussire
The 1996 vintage offers a dark-fruited nose with floral and spice notes adding complexity. The palate echoes those aromas, and reveals a lovely texture, fine tannins and energetic acidity.
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Producer: Domaine Georges Roumier
Ratings: WA | 93 RP | 90
Vintage: 1996
Size: 750ml
ABV: 13.5%
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Country/Region: France, Burgundy
The 1996 vintage offers a dark-fruited nose with floral and spice notes adding complexity. The palate echoes those aromas, and reveals a lovely texture, fine tannins and energetic acidity.
Reviews:
- Wine Advocate: A lovely, intense nose of raspberry and cherries... sweet red-berried fruit, wild strawberries and a touch of vanilla... will be ravishing in two or three more years. A gregarious Clos de la Bussieres. Lovely.
- Robert Parker: This ruby-colored wine reveals candied red cherry, rosemary, and stone aromatics that lead to a medium-bodied, beautifully ripe, well-delineated, and fresh personality. Complex flavors of earth, minerals, assorted sweet red fruits, and fresh herbs can be found in its flavor profile and supple finish.
Producer Information
From its beginnings all the way up to the present, Domaine Georges Roumier has maintained one of the best reputations in Burgundy. Their superb wines are also amazingly dependable and consistent in quality. Georges Roumier began the enterprise in 1924 and operated it until his retirement in 1961, when the estate was divided among his children. After his death in 1965, his son Jean-Marie ran the domaine and made the wines. Adopting his father's mtier, Jean-Marie's son Christophe became a talented winemaker as well, and bought out his uncles in 1992.
Domaine Georges Roumier is one of the finest sources of classic, long-lived red Burgundies, with wines that demonstrate fruit, spice, and balance, with substantial tannins. Simply put, Roumier wines are brilliantly made. They are rich, fragrant wines with characteristic aromas of cherries and berries, and often need 4-5 years to show their great depth and harmony. They are also very long-lived, lasting up to twenty years.
