Clos-De-La-Roche

Bottled only in magnums, offered singly in individual wooden boxes. It is very intense purple and with its usual great intensity, less forward than Clos St Denis. A certain strict style throughout, though not austere. Terrific density at the back of the palate.
Jasper Morris MW - Wine Buyer 

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Deepish purple in colour, this is really fabulously classy with great density and a lifted magical finish. Some blood orange notes lurk in the fruit. Altogether this is a red-blooded wine – really terrific. The finish is awesome: the whole range is really fine this year.

Our jovial friend Jérôme Castagnier has excelled himself this year. The promise we picked up on last year has really been delivered in 2014. He says that the wines have lovely flesh but also a beautiful freshness, and notes some similarities to 2010. His generic Burgundies (available on www.bbr.com/burgundy2014) are also excellent.
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38/40 hl/ha. Good colour. Fuller, richer and fatter than the Clos Saint-Denis. Fresh, ripe, concentrated and more classic. Very good grip. This has lots of class and lots of dimension. Lovely. Very fine. From 2010.
Clive Coates - The Vine - Apr-2003

Rich inky purple belies the finesse which is soon apparent in the mouth. Very beautiful and extremely long, with tingling minerals underneath the coating of velvet. This is always the most elegant of the Bernstein grands crus.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Buyer)

A rich purple but less black, there is a bit more refinement here. The wine has excellent weight, with a good mass of fruit behind which is lively all the way through. The blueberry notes are elegant with nuances. It’s very persistent indeed – a wine for the long term. Drink 2025-2035.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

Jérôme Castagnier is the Guide Hachette’s Burgundian vigneron of the year for 2017 and has been shortlisted for young vigneron of the year in the region’s own awards, so it is all happening for him. He began picking his 2015s on September 9th and finished on Saturday 12th before the rain that fell later that day. This year he has used one-third whole bunches for his village wines and the Crus, and in the last two years has refined his barrel regime so that the wood has less impact on the wine. Note that the malolactic fermentation was only just finishing when we tasted and this may have impacted the bouquets.

Roche de Bellene, Grand Cru 2010 is polished and beautifully balanced even it's just slightly timid. Pretty mighty though. Opulent fruit.
Jancis Robinson - jancisrobinson.com

Rich, deep dark black with a point of reduction that gives a savoury touch. There is a lot of weight but also layers of fruit, two thirds black to one third red and a chocolatey consistency. It is very long and fine. The wine is still in a very backward state and will show greater refinement later. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Virgile went through the vineyards 15 days before harvest, removing the leaves on the south side and taking away anything that was rotten. This kept his crop in good condition so he could afford to wait for full ripeness, not starting until 11th October. He then practised very gentle extraction to keep the tannins supple. He compares 2013 to 2008 but with greater richness of fruit. The crop is 15-to-20% up on 2012 but still well below normal.

Tasting through Charles Rousseau`s impressive star studded range, this is always a brooding, tannic monster when set against the silky opulence of his Chambertin and Clos de Bez. With time however it softens and becomes beautifully harmonious. This wine is modestly priced for its lineage and shows the hand of a true master at work.

Fine bright graceful mid purple. The bouquet shows a wealth of complex fruit along with a touch of toast from the Chassin barrels. There is dark cherry, perhaps blackberry and dark raspberry too. This starts smoothly in the mouth and then kicks on to another level with a vast surge of concentrated fruit. The structure shows both ripe tannins and a little trace of acidity, bringing out the savoury side of Clos de la Roche. This is an impressively dense wine, with very good grip and plenty of nervous tension. Very special this year.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Buying Director

The nose of this bright purple wine is another marvel of heady, hedonistic beauty. The palate boasts glorious mouthfilling fruit and the wonderful seamless texture is the result of very fine tannins. Drink 2012-2018.

Bright pale purple, with a heavenly perfume behind, perhaps the most elegant wine in the cellar. Really pure and perfumed, with some violets in the bouquet, immensely long, with just a little spice in the mix. The stems give focus, precision and freshness. Gorgeous wine.
(Jasper Morris MW, BBR Buyer)

Evolved, laid back nose. Medium body. Delicious, jammy forest fruit flavours, supported by fine acidity and savoury, gamey notes. Balanced, with impressive old wine power.

Distinctive Morey-St Denis, black brambly fruit, complete with the sort of weight, structure and texture you would hope for from a Grand Cru; almost four-square, yet supported by only 10% new oak.

This is one of those wines that shows its class from the very first sniff. Absolutely delicious, it has perfectly harmonious fruit, and the harmonious oak from high class barrels is in evidence too. It should drink well quite early on but stay the course.

This is the best of the Grand Crus from Morey and Nicolas has preserved all of the lush, exotic, blueberry notes that distinguish the vineyard. An ample, dcollet wine. Drink from 2010.

Clos de la Roche (16.90 ha) is one of the four Grands Crus of Morey-St Denis, noted for the structure and density of its wines which can be austere in youth. Olivier Bernstein’s grapes come from 50-year-old vines. This wine never displays the deeper colours, but the lighter purple hue is clear and pure.

There is a lovely sensual quality to the nose with real finesse. Morello cherry is the nearest fruit. A beautiful mouthful of velvet fruit leads through to a finely structured finish. This is a gentle giant of a wine.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

The wines of Burgundy – perhaps more than any other region – are a product both of place but also of people. With individual vineyard plots often split amongst countless producers, the terroir expressed in a wine can be unusually specific; equally the style of the winemaker can be readily discerned when tasted against his neighbours.

Back in 2007, Jasper Morris MW – Berry Bros. & Rudd’s Burgundy buyer, who lives in the region for most of the year – heard whispers about a new producer, whose wines were said to be universally impressive. Jasper duly sought out Olivier Bernstein and tasted his portfolio: “It was terrifically exciting to come across a brand-new quality producer in the Burgundy market, and to taste wines of such class from his very first vintage,” says Morris.

“Now, five years on, Olivier has matured into a confident player with his Premiers and Grands Crus wines of the Côte de Nuits.” Since Berry Bros. & Rudd first offered Bernstein’s wines with the 2007 vintage, Olivier’s reputation in the UK and worldwide markets has steadily grown. We are delighted that the 2012 vintage – unquestionably Bernstein’s most refined and well-composed offering to date – will be available to the UK market exclusively through Berry Bros. & Rudd.