Red Wine: 2007 | Domaine Georges Roumier | Bonnes-Mares

Medium-full colour. Very closed-in on the nose. Needs time. Some new oak evident. Full body. Backward. Some tannin.

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Producer: Domaine Georges Roumier

Ratings: WA | 97 JS | 94

Vintage: 2007

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Medium-full colour. Very closed-in on the nose. Needs time. Some new oak evident. Full body. Backward. Some tannin. Lots of grip and energy. Lovely ample, rich follow-through. Very long on the palate high class.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: One of the wines of the vintage, the 2007 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has shut down considerably in the last few years, and it’s clear that this is one of the few 2007 red Burgundies truly built from the long haul. The wine unfurls in the glass with a youthfully reserved bouquet of red and black cherries, peony, orange zest and woodsmoke that’s far less extroverted and explosive than it was only four years ago. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a tight-knit core, fine-grained structuring tannins and a long, stony finish.

• James Suckling: Gorgeous aromas and flavors of red currant, raspberry, black cherry, licorice and mineral highlight this complex, powerful and stylish red. This keeps pulsing on the palate, ending in a long, fruit-, spice- and mineral-tinged aftertaste.

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.