French Reds
1996 Robert Groffier Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru "Les Amoureuses"
- Item Number
- 500
- Estimated Value
- 125 USD
- Sold
- 100 USD to myomaya
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
1996 Robert Groffier Chambolle-Musigny "Les Amoureuses"
93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This medium-to-dark ruby-colored wine is a grand cru in quality, if not officially. Its perfumed nose of roses, sweet red fruits, blackberries, and hints of freshly laid asphalt leads to a stunning, medium-to-full-bodied, and silky-textured personality. Readers will be enthralled by this wine's richness, purity, and precision, as well as by its extraction and depth of fruit. It offers intense layers of black cherries, Asian spices, and just a faint hint of new oak toastiness. This refined, yet muscular, and formidably long Amoureuses is a formidable wine...This wine was a first-rate example of its terroir. The meticulous work of Serge Groffier (Robert's son) in the vineyards is evidenced by each glassful of nectar from this well-known and certainly soon-to-be-famous domaine. (8/ 1998)
93 points Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Saturated ruby-red. Supersweet aromas of raspberry, currant, graphite and sweet oak, plus an exotic suggestion of citrus fruit. Silky and sweet, if rather unforthcoming in the middle palate; offers great concentration and a near perfect sugar/acid balance. Firm tannins are covered by fruit. Great whiplash of a finish. This has considerable early appeal but will be even better after seven or eight years of additional bottle aging. (4/ 1999)
Donated By:
Hawkins Family
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