2016 Domaine Armand Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze Crand Cru

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The 2016 Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Grand Cru is showing brilliantly from bottle, unwinding with aeration to reveal a deep and brooding bouquet of plums, cassis and cherries mingled with notions of grilled meats, ceps, peonies and iodine. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, textural and enveloping, with a muscular chassis of ripe tannin that's cloaked in a core of vibrant and concentrated fruit, concluding with a long and thrillingly carnal finish. It will be fascinating to compare this with the qualitatively similar but stylistically very different 2015 vintage when both wines have 20 years on the clock. Drink 2030-2066.
97 points
William Kelley - Wine Advocate (Jan 2020)

The 2016 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru is a little subdued on the nose with delineated red cherry, crushed strawberry and crushed stone aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, fresh and mineral-driven, almost Ruchottes-like in style with just a small attenuation towards the finish. Very fine, if not quite delivering the substance you might have expected. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting. Drink 2022-2045.
95 points
Neal Martin - Vinous (Nov 2018)

Here too there is just enough wood in evidence to mention on the gorgeously spiced and intricately layered aromas of essence of red currant, floral, plum, earth and a whisper of the sauvage. Once again the mouthfeel of the notably more imposingly-scaled flavors is sleek with excellent minerality that really comes up on the super-saline finish that goes on and on. But what I really admire about the '16 Bèze is the texture because it's at once muscular yet highly seductive and refined. This is a very, very powerful wine that is seriously impressive in every respect. In a word, brilliant. Drink through 2041+.
98 points
Allen Meadows - Burghound (Jan 2019)

Bright red-purple with some immediately engaging fruit. It is quite discreet though. Pure clean and balanced yet with a wealth of underlying fruit. The oak is quite prominent but is an entirely valid support to the concentration of fruit. Slightly dry behind but that is helping the control. The fruit is at optimum ripeness.
97 points
Jasper Morris MW - Inside Burgundy (Sept 2019)