Roche de Bellene

2008 Roche de Bellene Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Vergelesses

By billn on June 30, 2010

From 80 year-old vines. Very good colour. Aromatically there’s a good depth of red fruit. Riper than the bourgogne, the fresh fruit is backed by plenty of structure.

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2008 Roche de Bellene Beaune Cent Vignes

By billn on June 30, 2010

“Forty year old vines from the mid-slope, more tanninc than higher up but very pure.” Plenty of pretty, pure fruit on the nose. Lovely texture of velvet from the tannin dovetails fresh fruit. This is quite long. Good wine.

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2008 Roche de Bellene Volnay Pitures

By billn on June 30, 2010

From the white marl close to Pommard 1er Chanlins. Perfumed, quite beautiful fruit. This is the first wine that shows a little fat to counter the structure. Gorgeous fruit – super.

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2008 Roche de Bellene Volnay Santenots

By billn on June 30, 2010

The aromas are narrower than the Pitures but the red fruit is still a very pretty thing. Again there is some fat here, the tannins being well-covered. Rounder than the Pitures though I preferred that expression of fruit.

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2008 Roche de Bellene Nuits St.Georges Les Murgers

By billn on June 30, 2010

The aromas have a denser impression to the red fruit but there are still some pretty floral aromatics too. Good fruit and structure – there’s a good balance here.

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2008 Roche de Bellene Gevrey-Chambertin Les Combottes

By billn on June 30, 2010

A wine that Nicolas says he has been waiting a long time to get hold of. Nice, elegant and fine fruit – not showing much depth today. Clearly there’s an executive texture of silky tannin here. The flavours like the aromas are a little tight. The wine impresses on some levels, it’s certainly quite elegant, but I’d have preferred to spend a little more time with it.

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