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  • Country ranking ?

    1 471
  • Producer ranking ?

    269
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Well-cared for vines, strictly controlled yields and as late as possible harvest produces an aromatic and opulent wine. Deeply coloured, La Tâche develops a palate of extraordinary aromas of dark fruits, truffle and spices.

Rich and concentrated, its bouquet releases infinite tones that melt in the mouth to form a lovely ensemble – always exceptional, even in the difficult vintages. Hence in 1950 and 1951, it was the only wine in the domain...

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Wine Information

1997 Harvest

1997 will be remembered as a vintage where extremes of cold, heat and humidity never stopped meeting, a vintage that began with anxiety and difficulties, but ended with smile and excitement, and everything you need to achieve an exceptional wine.

The bud was very early, favoured by an extraordinarily warm month of March, but in April the cold weather returned with intensity and frost slowed down and even here and there destr...

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Vintage 1997

1997 VINTAGE in Burgundy

The exciting Burgundy vintage in 1997 is regarded as having produced some of the most charming wines in living memory. The whites are notable for their richness and balance. Full, elegant and well bred, they are for great short to medium term drinking pleasure. The reds have fine intense colour, with well-ripened berry fruits on the nose, and smooth, fleshy flavours in the mouth. They are already very agreeable to d...

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Tasting note

color

Deep, Ruby red and Healthy

ending

Medium and Sharp

flavors

Leather and Nutty

nose

Pure, Closed, Modest and Youthful

recommend

No

taste

High in Acidity, High tannin, Balanced, Concentrated, Perfectly balanced, Medium-bodied, Sharp, Round, Dry and Hard tannins

Verdict

Mediocre and Good everyday wine

Written Notes

Dark-colored, the aromatically tight 1997 La Tache reveals Asian spices, pepper, cherries and black currants. This is a velvety-textured, expansive, and massively ripe wine boasting flavors reminiscent of licorice and blackberry jam. It has superb depth of fruit (particularly for this sometimes 'simple' vintage), medium-to-full body, and admirable length to its supple finish

  • 93p

La Tâche DRC 1997 – not a very good bottle, sous-bois, faisandé, another bottle on another table was obviously much better - (89)

  • 89p
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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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