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The May 2025 Auction: Part 3
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Estimate: $4,500
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"The ’98 Rousseau Chambertin must also be one of the top wines of the vintage, as it would have no difficulty at all holding its own in a flight of big time 1999s! The bouquet is utterly magnificent, offering up a complex mix of crystallized dark berry and plum fruit, notes of dark chocolate, mustard seed, minerals, violets and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, impeccably balanced, with laser-like focus, a sappy core of fruit, round, ripe tannins, and excellent length and grip on the aristocratic finish. In this tasting of top 1999s and 1998s, it is the comparable quality of the very best 1998s that is the real surprise. This is a great young bottle of wine."
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"The ’98 Rousseau Chambertin must also be one of the top wines of the vintage, as it would have no difficulty at all holding its own in a flight of big time 1999s! The bouquet is utterly magnificent, offering up a complex mix of crystallized dark berry and plum fruit, notes of dark chocolate, mustard seed, minerals, violets and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, impeccably balanced, with laser-like focus, a sappy core of fruit, round, ripe tannins, and excellent length and grip on the aristocratic finish. In this tasting of top 1999s and 1998s, it is the comparable quality of the very best 1998s that is the real surprise. This is a great young bottle of wine."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Produces the world's most revered Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a mosaic of tiny, terroir-defined climats. Its hierarchy of village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards makes site the ultimate expression of quality.
The Cote de Nuits' largest Grand Cru commune, producing powerful, structured and deeply flavored Pinot Noir built for long aging.
A thin-skinned, terroir-sensitive red producing perfumed, silky and elegant wines of red-berry fruit and earthy complexity. It reaches its apogee in Burgundy.