Roumier

Yields varied dramatically, as Roumier’s home village of Chambolle-Musigny was hit hard by the frost. He lost about 50% of his fruit in Musigny and Les Amoureuses, two-thirds in Les Cras, and all of his Bourgogne Rouge and Corton-Charlemagne. His tiny quantity of Chambolle-Musigny Les Combottes went into his Chambolle villages.

Roumier told me, and he believes that, with their generosity and ripe, broad tannins, the ‘16s are built to age. STEPHEN TANZER

For Chambolles with a difference, wines which are substantial, even sturdy, as well as velvety and elegant, the best source is the Roumier domaine: to be precise, because there are two others in the village, the Domaine Georges Roumier.  This is one of the longest-established estate bottling domaines in the Côte D’Or.  And one of the very best of all. CLIVE COATES MW