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  • Country ranking ?

    1 171
  • Producer ranking ?

    217
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Richebourg is a king of a wine: the colonnade of the Louvre, the Château of Versailles. You are impressed by its finesse, its length and its delicate sensations, endlessly changing. The fact that no element dominates the others enables you to appreciate all of its aromas, on the nose and on the palate. In any given vintage, Richebourg is always one of the last wines to be drunk. Not because it is too aggressive when young; simply because it ne...

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Wine Information

2002 Harvest

A national daily ran today as a headline : « Sumptuous harvest in Burgundy ». It is true indeed that the end of the Summer was glorious with sunny days that we no longer expected and that fulfilled the most demanding dreams of the vignerons.
Never more than this year have we felt how much a vintage in Burgundy can depend on two or three days only : if these days are rainy, there will be an explosion of botytris, complete mat...

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Vintage 2002

2002 VINTAGE in Burgundy

A Great Year 

The trade is unanimous: the harvest was exceptional and 2002 is destined to be a great vintage for Burgundy. A dry summer, a sunny September, splendid grapes with highly concentrated sugars - everything came together to produce structured and complex wines with outstanding aromatic potential.
As early as the beginning of September, the sugar content in the grapes was often at exceptionally high lev...

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Ruby red and Pale

ending

Long, Lingering, Extensive and Sharp

flavors

Smoky, Cranberry, Raspberry, Voluptuous, Toasty and Perfumed

nose

Intense, Fresh, Ripe and Seductive

taste

High in Acidity, Medium tannin, Balanced, Concentrated, Well-Integrated, Light, One-dimensional, Firm, Elegant, Refined, Dry and Drying tannins

Verdict

Well-rounded and Sophisticated

Written Notes

It was a step up as the fruit was much more in your face . thick, rich and ripe with meaty, plummy and smoky aromas along with vanilla and sweet fruit on the blackberry and plum side. The nose had gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous fruit. It was stunning. There was a touch of cinnamon, and someone keenly observed it .stood out for its amplitude and opulence.. The palate was deliciously rusty, with great length and style to its acids, and tannins that make you lick the roof of your mouth but not smack your lips. There was almost perfect sweetness to the wine on the palate and its black fruit, a fruit only matched later by the Romanee Conti itself.

  • 96p
Ruby, strawberry jam, herbs, perfumed nose. Fresh palate, but bland, easy going, lacks nuance, finesse and complexity, to short.
  • 85p
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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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Marc

Montrachet

Romanée Conti

Romanee Saint Vivant

Vosne Romanée

Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cuvée Duvault Blochet

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