Domaine Armand Rousseau Chambertin Grand Cru 2011

This is completely different from the Bèze aromatically speaking as here the nose is brooding and recalcitrant and only aggressive swirling liberates fresh scents of spice, wet stone, game and dark berry fruits. There is outstanding richness to the powerful and impressively scaled flavours that possess an abundance of dry extract that imparts a velvety quality to the mid-palate while also buffering the tightly wound core of firm tannins on the driving mineral-inflect and hugely persistent finish. This is a stunner of a wine and at this early stage, it's not clear which of the Rousseau big boys will be the better effort in 2011. I for one will be looking to purchase both.