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    139
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    17
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2028
  • Food Pairing

    pata negra ham

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Burgundy 2017 was a welcome relief for growers, due to its abundant quantity and much applauded quality. The vintage was released at the peak of the Burgundy market, when the region’s prices had reached record highs. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy’s most iconic brand, was no exception.

Yesterday, Neal Martin released his notes from tasting DRC 2017 in bottle at a London Corney & Barrow event that allowed him to compare vineyards that...

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The Story

 “As if, in this square of earth, the gods had bequeathed us a memory of the fascinating vestige of a timeless perfection.” — Richard Olney. The wine of Prince de Conti, she is velvet, seduction and mystery. It is the most Proustian of all great wines.

 

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is without question the most famous estate in Burgundy and arguably the greatest, producing some of the best wines in the world. It is probably one of the mos...

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Wine Advocate Review
Rated 98
Wafting from the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of dark wild berries, cassis, wilted rose petals, blood orange, exotic spices, licorice and coniferous forest floor, the 2017 Romanee-Conti Grand Cru is full-bodied, satiny textured and multidimensional. It's just as powerful as this year's La Tache but even more elegantly framed by filigree structure, concluding with an intensely sapid and penetratingly fra...

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Vintage 2017

BURGUNDY 2017 - In 2017, everything came good for the Bourgogne winegrowing region in terms of both quality and quantity. And after several years of harvests that suffered the whims of the weather, 2017 has provided volumes set to satisfy the market, with wines that are already promising great things to come from this elegant vintage. 

After spending the winter building up their strength, the vines profited fully from a very warm spring, wi...

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Lovely woody perfume, fresh and full, dense bright fresh raspberry leaf. The palate is very neatly constructed, very textured, imbued with dark fruit, without the weightiness of the Echezeaux for example, it lingers and lasts for full minutes.

  • 98p

The palate explodes with smokey intensity, fresh and full, dense bright fresh raspberry leaf. The palate is very firmly constructed, very textured, imbued with dark fruit,  the tannins are tight and insistent,  fine-boned, it lingers and lasts for full minutes.

  • 97p

The 2017 Romanée-Conti Grand Cru is dense, ample and also ethereal, as only it can be. Once again, Romanée-Conti elicits thoughts of art forms like cubist paintings or jazz, where themes are implied but never expressly stated. Above all else Romanée-Conti is a Burgundy that engages all the senses. You want answers, but all you get back is more questions. The 2017 is powerful and quite closed initially, yet with some aeration hints of black cherry, lavender and exotic spice start to appear. A closing rush of baritone inflections give it a real sense of gravitas. It’s a shame very few people will ever be able to taste it. Harvest took place on the morning of September 8.

  • 96p

Pale crimson. A certain hauteur here compared with La Tâche… Powerful briary nose that takes time to open up. But it certainly unfurls in the glass. Savoury rather than sweet on the nose. Fine and refined. Fine boned – very aristocratic and thoroughbred rather than the richness of La Tâche. Pure refinement. 627 cases
Drink2035–2060
£9,000 for 3 bottles, £3,000 a bottle

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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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