Dark red-ruby. Exotic, in-your-face aromas of dark raspberry, dried rose petal, violet, licorice and minerals. Wonderfully silky on entry, then lush and sweet in the middle, offering a magical combination of fine-grained texture, sharp definition and underlying minerality. As sexy as this is today-and it's much more expressive now than it was from barrel a year ago-its long, echoing, spreading finish and captivating palate-saturating sweetness suggest it will gain in complexity for a decade or two.

This too displays an almost invisible touch of oak influence that highlights stunningly complex and layered aromas that are positively kaleidoscopic in their sheer breadth with textured, cool and intensely mineral suffused big-bodied flavors that for all the focused muscularity sacrifice none of the fine detail this wine is known for, all wrapped in an almost painfully intense and explosively long and mouth coating finish. This is not a massive Bèze but it's a real knockout.

Rousseau's 2007 Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Grand Cru wears its heart on its sleeve and is drinking beautifully today, bursting with aromas of plummy fruit, spices, peonies and toasty oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and melting palate that's sweet, giving and supple, concluding with a clean but only moderately persistent finish.