Ruchottes Chambertin 2012 Mugneret-Gibourg

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (99)

Nothing quite enraptured like the 2012 Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru during five weeks of tasting in Burgundy. This year it is a single cuvee: the younger vines planted in 2000 granted access to the grand vin for the first time and as Marie-Christine correctly pointed out, it lends energy to this stellar wine. The nose is one that makes you take a sharp in-take of breath and leaves you scrabbling around for words. “Wow” will suffice. It is blessed with unbelievable delineation and mineralite, effortlessly graceful yet intense and indeed, reminiscent of Rousseau’s own Ruchottes-Chambertin. The palate is refined on the entry, edgy at first with stony red berry fruit, underpinned by filigree tannins and an utterly entrancing harmonious finish that lingers long in the mouth. I would love buy all nine barrels but the wife might complain. Then I would make her taste it and she would retract that complaint. This came across as totally flawless…and it might just well be in bottle.