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Wine Description
The Story
This extraordinarily dense wine, produced by the Chateau du Vosne Romanée, is distributed exclusively by Bouchard Pere & Fils, and has astonishing concentration and abundant black fruit notes accompanying the amazing nose. It is a pleasure to see the potential of this piece of property realized. Clive Coates raves about this wine: "Domaine du Chateau de Vosne Romanée. Huge colour. Marvellous, super-concentrated essence of wine on the nose. Thi...
Vintage 1979
Burgundy: Spring started rather cold, but in May, warmer weather arrived to get flowering off to a good start. Normal, warm summer conditions followed, with the exception of a severe local storm in June which minimized crop sizes in Vosne-Romanée and Chambolle-Musigny. The harvest began at the end of September. The fine, elegant wines were just a little sweeter than the '78s; The Côte de Beaune did particularly well.