Domaine Armand Rousseau is one of Burgundy’s most prestigious family-run estates, producing wines from several grand cru and premier cru vineyards. Their Charmes-Chambertin cuvée comes from two parcels in the Charmes-Chambertin appellation and a parcel in Mazoyères-Chambertin. 2003 was a very hot vintage in Burgundy but the red wines emerged triumphantly. Drinking well now.
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Domaine Armand Rousseau is a highly regarded and critically lauded wine producer based in the village of Gevrey-Chambertin, in the northern Côte de Nuits. Arguably iconic in status, Armand Rousseau is one of Burgundy’s oldest and most revered family-run domains. It holds many grand cru plots in Gevrey-Chambertin as well as part of the much sought-after premier cru vineyard Clos Saint-Jacques.Founded at the start of the 20th Century by Gevrey native Armand Rousseau, the domaine initially owned small plots of vines throughout Gevrey-Chambertin. Over the next 100 years under both Armand Rousseau and his son Charles, who took over after the death of his father in 1959, the Domaine acquired various grand cru vineyards in Charmes-, Mazis- (labeled “Mazy” by the domaine) and Mazoyères-Chambertin, culminating in a plot in Le Chambertin itself in 1994.
