Domaine Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2008
Domaine Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2008
In Bond, excludes duty and VAT · 1x75cl
In bond price shown. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry · 1x75cl
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One bottle of Domaine Armand Rousseau Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2008, offered In Bond from one of our suppliers, usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed. Price per bottle, In Bond UK.
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Price per bottle £817.00 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
2 available, 1x75cl
Offered in bond. Duty and VAT are not included and become payable only if the wine is withdrawn from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT.
This wine comes from one of our suppliers and is usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
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- Format
- 1x75cl
- Vintage
- 2008
- Producer
- Domaine Armand Rousseau
- Origin
- Côte de Nuits, France
- Type
- Red
- Duty status
- In Bond
- Availability
- From our supplier, 6 to 8 weeks
What the critics say
89-90 WAWine Advocate, David Schildknecht, 29-06-2010
New leather, black tea, and bright cherry and plum scent Rousseau’s 2008 Clos de La Roche, which comes to the palate bright and with tart chew of fruit skins and smokiness of black tea serving for invigoration in a finish of impressive persistence. Less exuberant and multi-faceted today than the corresponding Mazy, this also displays more aggressive – faintly gum-numbing – tannins than the several wines that preceded it in the present line-up. Eric Rousseau did not begin harvesting until September 28, but was finished already on October 4, with – as usual – the entire burden of selection placed on his pickers. The resultant wines prove that, as he puts it “they know what they’re doing” and sorting tables are unnecessary. Grapes came in between around 12% and 13.2%, were virtually all destemmed, and were only lightly chaptalized. Levels of malic acid were however higher even than in 2004, reports Rousseau, who compares the fruit with that of 1996, but does not finger the wines as strong candidates for long-term aging (“long term” – bear in mind – meaning upwards of 20 years in the context of a Rousseau track-record). When I tasted his 2008s in late February, Rousseau was planning to bottle them in March or April, a bit earlier than usual, although several struck me as relatively unformed. But then, his malos had finished by July – not late in terms of the vintage. (Unfortunately, I had only one chance to taste Rousseau 2007s: fleetingly, selectively, at a stage too early to merit reporting on in detail, although the trend was promising and Rousseau is keen on the results.)
89 VMVinous, Neal Martin, 03-02-2026
The 2008 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru does come up a bit short juxtaposed with a dozen or so other vintages on the table. This is open-knit and ready for business on the nose, quite savoury red fruit, iron piping, hints of eucalyptus. The palate has a grainy texture, clearly leaner than the 2009 or 2010 in keeping with the vintage, quite meaty and grainy towards the slightly austere finish. Drink now.
Drink 2025 to 2035
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