(96-100 points) An imperial robe as we have come to expect. The bouquet is very backward, no problem there either, all about the fruit, the new wood is irrelevant. Starts slowly then builds immaculately, still too early really to see the detail. As always it is about grace style intensity and length rather than overt muscle, all the finesse one can want. Long and lovely.

A distinctly cool and exuberantly fresh nose features reticent wonderfully spiced notes of various dark berries along with forest floor nuances that include humus and earth. The intensity of the imposingly broad-shouldered and muscular flavors is borderline painful with impressive power on the hugely long finish that is supported by incredibly dense but quite fine-grained tannins. This is magnificent and a wine of class and grace that will justly vie for wine of the vintage honors when it's time for such assessments. It's extremely rare that I put 30-year initial drinking windows for modern red Burgundies, but my prediction is that this stunningly brilliant wine will age glacially.

Not surprisingly, the 2020 Chambertin chez Rousseau is more reserved today than the stunningly inviting Clos St. Jacques, but in the fullness of time, this magical wine will reach even greater heights. The refined and very precise bouquet wafts from the glass in a blend of red and black plums, raw cocoa, gamebird, a beautifully complex base of soil tones, a gentle touch of spice, woodsmoke and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and very deep at the core, with great mineral undertow and grip, ripe, buried tannins and a very, very long, nascently complex and oh, so promising finish.

(95-97 points) Rousseau's 2020 Chambertin Grand Cru is brilliant, unwinding in the glass with aromas of wild berries, orange rind, plums, exotic spices, Egyptian musk, woodsmoke and rose petals. Full-bodied, velvety and concentrated, it's deep and tightly wound, with striking intensity and energy. Still very primary, even after a year's élevage, it will require patience, but it's a magical Chambertin in the making.