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Reviews Wine Spectator 94 Points
Elegant and beautifully poised between pure raspberry, cherry, wild berry, floral and mineral aromas and flavors and a vibrant structure. This graceful, linear red is very harmonious—deceptively so, in that you might want to drink it now. Needs a few years to gain complexity. Best from 2012 through 2025. 20 cases imported.–BS
International Wine Cellar 90 Points
Bright, full red. Pure, wild aromas of black raspberry, flowers and spicy oak; smells riper than the foregoing samples. Fat and sweet but a bit youthfully imploded, with good underlying spine to the bitter cherry flavor. Understated and quite young, finishing with subtle fruits and flowers and a fine dusting of tannins. Eric Rousseau prefers this to the Clos de la Roche today.
Burghound 91-93 Points
Rousseau noted that in 2007, the Ruchottes received 25% new wood whereas in the past, the percentage was zero. An elegant, cool, restrained and lilting nose of rose petal, cranberry and raspberry aromas merges into medium weight flavors brimming with minerality and culminating in a relatively powerful finish underpinned by ripe tannins and excellent length. This really stains the palate and I very much like the underlying sense of tension. |
