The 2007 Chambertin Clos-de-Beze Grand Cru is drinking beautifully at the moment. It has a pixilated bouquet that is utterly entrancing – red currant, bergamot, hints of pomegranate seeds and an underlying mineralite that is divine. The palate is perfectly balanced with extremely fine tannins. There is something regal and self-assured about this Clos-de-Beze, with a sense of weightlessness in the mouth that is bewitching. This both satisfies the senses and flirts with profundity. Dare I suggest this is too exquisite to cellar? Damn – I've just gone and done it. Drink now-2020. (NM)

As can be the case in many vintages, the 2007 Rousseau Clos de Beze is even more extroverted and flamboyant than the Chambertin out of the gates, and it is clearly a very great vintage for this wine chez Rousseau. The bouquet is deep and stunning, as it offers up a vibrant melange of sappy red and black cherries, blood orange, chocolate, espresso, herb tones and spicy wood. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, pure and sappy at the core, with beautiful focus and balance, moderate tannins, tangy acids and tremendous energy and purity on the very long, complex and utterly seductive finish. A great wine. (Drink between 2018-2040) 95+

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. (ST)

Loads of sweet cherry, bilberry, plum, mineral and spice notes are matched to a firm, well-integrated structure. Dense and velvety, vibrant and long, with a pure fruit and mineral aftertaste. This doesn't want to quit on the finish. Best from 2014 through 2030. Collectibles

A relatively high-toned and attractively spicy nose is composed primarily of various red berry fruit scents together with hints of underbrush and earth. There is plenty of vibrancy to the medium-bodied middle weight flavors that possess both good detail and a lovely minerality that continues onto the sappy and seductively textured finale that delivers excellent persistence. This is very much a creature of its vintage, which is to say a lighter wine relative to virtually all of the other vintages of the decade with the exception of the 2004. While this should certainly reward a few more years of bottle age, it would not be complete infanticide to open a bottle now. Tasted on mutliple occasions with consistent notes save for one bottle that displayed noticeable brett.