The 2008 Morey-Saint-Denis Clos de La Bussière is sweet, sensual and totally beguiling, Dark cherries, herbs, violets and white flowers are some of the nuances that emerge from this precise, striking wine. An underpinning of minerality accentuates the energy of the fruit and the wine's overall persistence. This is a gorgeous 2009.

Good medium red. Musky soil tones and complex peppery spices on the nose and palate. More fleshy but less open than the Chambolle villages, but showing superb energy for this bottling. Finishes lush and long, with harmonious acidity.

Here the nose is a fresh mix of crushed herbs and distinctly earthy red berry fruit aromas that precede middle weight flavors that are delicious, round and detailed with good verve and punch on the supple finish that is solidly complex and quite persistent. This is easy to like as the ripe if mildly rustic tannins are well-integrated and this should drink well relatively young yet be capable of aging well too.
-Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, Issue 41. Tasted: Jan 01, 2011

88-91 pts: This too is strongly reduced. The middle weight flavors are delicious, round and fresh with good verve and punch on the supple and easy to like finish that is solidly complex and quite persistent. This is easy to like as the ripe tannins are well-integrated and this should drink well relatively young.
-Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, Issue 37. Tasted: Jan 30, 2010

The Roumier 2008 Morey-St.-Denis Clos de la Bussiere mingles ripe, tart-edged plum and the piquancy of its pits with game and strongly saline smoke meat elements. Less texturally nuanced or dynamic than the corresponding village-level Chambolle, this finishes with formidable, lip-smacking persistence, but also a hint of gum-numbing tannin. Perhaps - in view of the performances of its stable mates - this was experiencing a difficult post-assemblage, pre-bottling period when I tasted it. Christophe Roumier says his 2008 fruit demanded rigorous sorting to remove under-ripe bunches (whereas in 2007 this was necessary to remove rot), but he liked what was left enough to indulge in a significant proportion (most frequently 50%) of stems and whole clusters for the fermentations. "With such tiny, perfect berries, it was almost a shame to de-stem any of them," he remarks. Late to go through malo, like so many others of that year, these 2008s certainly preserve the vintage's primary virtues of vivacity and interactive complexity. Not more than 50% new wood was employed, to guard against loss of the vintage's vividly bright fruit in a vintage Roumier felt was unusually sensitive in that regard. Some of the 2008s remind him of 1980 or, more precisely, of what the 1980s could have become given today's standards of viticulture and selection. Roumier has a higher opinion of 2007 and their age-worthiness than do I, considering them superior to 2006 or 2008 - and given the way the two that I tasted from bottle showed, that opinion is not inexplicable. (I tasted the other Roumier 2007s too early in their evolution to render proper verdicts, although they were certainly effusively generous if not yet complex even pre-malo.) Roumier employed comparable percentages of stems and whole clusters, and indulged in more frequent pigeage than in 2008, comparing his resulting 2007s with 1985s. Importer: Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines Company, New York, NY; tel. (212) 419-1400

Tasted out of barrel at the Domaine. A tightly coiled nose, fresh and stony, with redcurrant, boysenberry and a touch of blueberry, evolving more floral scents with aeration. The palate is surprisingly grippy on the entry, a little earthy and just missing some persistency on the saline finish. Drink 2011-2020. Tasted November 2009.