2003 | Georges Roumier | Bonnes Mares

Description

Red Wine: 2003 | Georges Roumier | Bonnes Mares

Such an elegant palate with fresh acidity and ripe, velvety tannins. Despite the power, this manages to remain understated. Precise. Savoury and fine on the finish.

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Producer: Georges Roumier

Ratings: D | 96V | 91

Vintage: 2003

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Such an elegant palate with fresh acidity and ripe, velvety tannins. Despite the power, this manages to remain understated. Precise. Savoury and fine on the finish.

Reviews:

• Decanter: Another very fine Bonnes Mares. Rich and robust, this has impeccable balance on the nose and retains great depth of colour. Such an elegant palate with fresh acidity and ripe, velvety tannins. Despite the power, this manages to remain understated. This is not a blockbuster, but a refined, elegant example from one of Burgundy’s top producers. Precise. Savoury and fine on the finish. A wonderful example which is in perfect alignment now.

• Vinous: The 2003 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru courtesy of Christophe Roumier has more freshness and delineation than Mugnier’s, the attractive red berry fruit mingling with bay leaf and sous-bois aromas. The palate is well balanced with fine tannins, supple and pliant, offering lightly spiced red fruit mixed with orange peel and white pepper toward the finish. Very fine but drink soon. Tasted at Sarah Marsh’s 2003/2004 tasting in London.

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.