2012 | Georges Roumier | Chambolle Musigny

Description

Red Wine: 2012 | Georges Roumier | Chambolle Musigny

A juicy, expressive style, sporting cherry, raspberry, spice and subtle tobacco flavors. This is lively, firming up on the lingering, mineral-tinged finish.

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Producer: Georges Roumier

Ratings: BH | 92WA | 92

Vintage: 2012

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

A juicy, expressive style, sporting cherry, raspberry, spice and subtle tobacco flavors. This is lively, firming up on the lingering, mineral-tinged finish.

Reviews:

• Burghound: This is also notably ripe with its pretty array of cassis, plum and violet aromas. There is a lovely texture to the elegant mineral-inflected and precise middle weight flavors that are shaped by relatively fine-grained tannins on the balanced and solidly persistent finish. This saline-infused effort is very Chambolle in style.

• Wine Advocate: The 2012 Chambolle-Musigny Village has one of those ‘stalking’ bouquets that creep up on you, unfurling with its earthy red berry fruit mingling with forest floor and briary. The palate is very well balanced with crisp tannins, the fruit erring towards dark berries towards the finish that is very precise. This is devilishly delicious.

Producer Information

Domaine Georges Roumier is a wine producer based in the Côte de Nuits village of Chambolle-Musigny, where it produces some of Burgundy’s most expensive, highly rated, and sought-after wines. The Roumier story began when Georges Roumier married Genevieve Quanquin in 1924. Quanquin had family vineyards in Chambolle-Musigny, which Roumier began to expand upon. Instead of buying plots outright, Roumier used the French sharecropping/lease system of métayage, whereby an individual cultivates the land for the owner in exchange for a proportion of the produce, to build up the domaine’s range. Roumier began with small plots in Musigny, moving onto Bonnes Mares as well as securing two plots in Clos de Vougeot. Most recently, Domaine Georges Roumier expanded into Ruchottes-Chambertin, where it is entitled to two thirds of the harvest from a 0.5 hectare (1.2 acre) parcel owned by Michel Bonnefond. The other third is sometimes encountered as Ruchottes wines labeled with the Bonnefond name (the wine is identical to the Roumier version). When Georges Roumier died in 1965, his son Jean-Marie took over the winemaking. Eventually Christophe, Jean-Marie’s son, took over and is the domaine’s current winemaker. His focus is very much on the terroir, so new oak is used sparingly and the temperature of the ferment is kept low to allow for the delicacy and fragrance of the wine to shine through. The most important plots in the Georges Roumier portfolio are in the Bonnes Mares Grand Cru vineyard (in which the domaine has 1.6 hectares/3.9 acres) and the Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses vineyard (0.4 hectares/one acre), which make two of the domaine’s most sought-after wines.