Domaine de la Romanee

"Romanée-Conti can be a rather elusive, at times intellectual wine. There are no such issues with the 2022. Dark and powerful in feel, the 2022 Rom...

"The last few months of maturation in cask have moved the 2019 La Tâche from being a superb wine to be one that is essentially flawless. The wine, ...

"This bottle of the 1972 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche was easily the finest of the three I have tasted recently. Tar, incense, truffles and...

"Initially, the nose was quite elegant and almost exuberantly spicy but after 30 minutes of air strong secondary aromas began to emerge bringing pu...

"Powerfully ripe and expressive aromas that display a wonderfully spicy mix of sous bois and very warm earth notes followed by quite ripe and inten...

"It's funny how some wines, even rarer ones, come your way reasonably often and others, like this one, show up every 25 years or so as I hadn't had...

"A firm, rich and tannic style, with very complex and enticing flavors of smoked bacon, cherry, spice and earth that are tightly concentrated and i...

"Showing more tannin and backbone than DRC's Echezeaux bottling, which tends to be the case, this comes from vines aged between 70 and 90 years old...

"The 2019 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru was picked on 20 and 21 of September at 18hL/ha and contains slightly less whole bunch than the Domaine's ...

"The flamboyant 2017 Grands Échézeaux Grand Cru is especially good this year, bursting from the glass with an extravagant bouquet of wild berries, ...

"Bursting with aromas of sweet wild berries, exotic spices and classy new oak, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and velvety, with a layered, conce...

"The Romanée-Saint-Vivant was shown after the Richebourg, which was not always the case. The domaine farms 5.29 hectares here, the former holding o...

"Bright medium red. At once more somber and higher-pitched on the nose than the Echézeaux, offering aromas of black cherry, dark berries, violet an...

"Richebourg has some of the silky character of its neighbor Romanée-Conti and the firmness of La Tâche. It is a sumtious wine with power and stamin...

"The Corton Prince Florent de Merode exudes deep, dark and spicy aromas accompanied by flavors of black cherry, blackberry and earth. Rich and a bi...

"Aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with notions of baking spices, espresso roast and vanilla pod, followed by a full-bodied, layered and alm...

"Twenty years on the 2000 La Tâche is beginning to lose some of its baby fat, although it is still redolent of lush floral notes and exotic spice o...

"The Romanée-Saint-Vivant remains a significant step above the Echézeaux and Grands Echézeaux in this portfolio, with a deeper colour and a richer,...

"The 2021 La Tâche Grand Cru is magical, mingling notions of mulberries, cherries and cassis with scents of bergamot, black tea, licorice, exotic s...

"The 2018 Richebourg Grand Cru boasts one of the most expressive aromatics from barrel, offering dark berries mixed with crushed limestone, pressed...

"An amazing wine continually changing in the glass and showing amazing complexity already. Medium full ruby with a pink rim. Wild berry, Asian spic...

"Medium red. Rather exotic aromas of liqueur-like red fruits, spices, leather and underbrush. Silky, seductive and a bit decadent in its early sex ...

"Opulent, its fat yet elegant texture coats the palate. Appealing for all that sweet oak, it tastes of plum, black cherry and cassis, with mocha an...

"Bertrand de Villaine, co-manager of the domaine, has often evoked the savoury nature of the Grands Echézeaux produced from their 3.53-hectare plot...

"Produced from seriously old vines with an average age of 56 years, DRC’s headline act does not remotely disappoint. Aromatic fireworks of ripe red...

"Soft contours and silky fruit give the 2009 Montrachet much of its undeniable appeal. The 2009 has always been radiant, alluring and arrestingly b...

"The Montrachet was picked on 6 September at a respectable 37.1hl/ha. Lucid in colour, perhaps a little deeper than expected, it has a multi-facete...

"Medium-full color. Now just about mature. Fullish, slightly four square nose. This softened up quickly. Fragrant, relaxed, poised and elegant. On ...

"Deep ruby colour. Rich opulent nose with notes of cooked meat and black coffee. Very powerful palate with wonderful definition. Backward compared ...

"The nose initially reveals considerable stem influence but after 45 minutes of airing, the spice and dark fruit elements began to assert themselve...

"The once explosive black fruit nose has now begun to evolve and while still showing obvious class and breed, also displays the front edge of matur...

"Succulent, juicy, elegant and satisfying. The lightest of the six DRC reds, but at least it's balanced and not astringent. Full-bodied and dark-co...

"Full colour. Splendidly opulent nose. Rich and succulent. Very good tannins. Rather more integrated and sophisticated than the Richebourg. Very lo...

"I found the 2020 Grands Echézeaux equally as impressive in bottle as I had out of the barrel. The wine, however, was different – initially relativ...

"The La Tâche was the palest of all the DRC 2017s, almost to the point of transparency. This is a floral, open knit expression of the monopoly Gran...

"A wonderfully spicy, fresh and equally ripe nose blends together more deeply pitched notes of plum, violet, sandalwood and hoisin wisps. There is ...