2007 | Domaine Georges Roumier | Morey-Saint-Denis Clos de la Bussiere

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Red Wine: 2007 | Domaine Georges Roumier | Morey-Saint-Denis Clos de la Bussiere

The 2007 vintage produced low yields but wines of textbook balance, charm and depth.

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Producer: Domaine Georges Roumier

Ratings: JS | 91 JG | 90

Vintage: 2007

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

The 2007 vintage produced low yields but wines of textbook balance, charm and depth.

Reviews:

• James Suckling: Dark and rich, with hints of bittersweet chocolate, this black cherry- and blackberry-infused red has plenty of flesh covering its structure and just keeps going on the fruit and spice aftertaste.

• John Gilman: The inherent elegance of the vintage has worked magic on the 2007 Clos de la Bussire, which is extremely refined and elegant right out of the blocks this year. The bouquet is deep, pure and complex, as it offers up a superb blend of black cherries, dark berries, espresso, a great base of complex soil tones and woodsmoke. On the palate the wine is fullish, long and tangy, with a fine core of sappy black fruit, beautiful focus and balance, fine-grained tannins and excellent length and grip on the elegant (particularly for young Clos de la Bussire) and refined finish. An excellent vintage for this consistently excellent wine.

Producer Information

Domaine Georges Roumier is a wine producer based in the Cte 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 mtayage, 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.