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  • Country ranking ?

    1 042
  • Producer ranking ?

    193
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Romanée-Conti lies on brown limestone soils 60 cm deep with a major clay component. Romanée-Saint-Vivant has similar but deeper (90 cm) soils. Higher up, La Romanée occupies a markedly sloping site (12%) and the soil texture is less clayey. La Tâche and La Grande Rue share brown limestone soils, rather shallow at the top end with deeper rendzinas lower down. The same is true for the Richebourg, depending on slope and aspect. The underlying roc...

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2003 Harvest

In Burgundy, it is not always true that exceptionally stressful climatic conditions can create wines of high quality. Yet, it is what happened in 2003 : despite very abnormal temperatures, this year seems to offer great wines, of which, at the time of devatting, we are only beginning to discover the depth.

The 2002/2003 winter was one of the rainiest in the last ten years. This is very important to underline, because the hu...

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Ruby red and Dark

ending

Long, Extensive and Flavorful

flavors

Cranberry, Raspberry, Licorice, Cherry, Toasty and Spice

nose

Open, Opulent, Ripe and Generous

recommend

Yes

taste

Average in Acidity, Medium tannin, Balanced, Concentrated, Medium-bodied and Silky tannins

Verdict

Transparent and Fine

Written Notes

The 2003 DRC Romanee St. Vivant had that forward, ’03 edge and while ripe, it had more in reserve than many other wines from the same vintage. There were aromas of cola, dust, blueberry, spice and orange tang. Tasty flavors of iron, rose and ‘eucalyptus’ per Jennie blended in well with this rich and ripe wine. This was a hearty har har red that was thick and put on some weight (94+).
  • 94p

Perhaps the biggest Romanee-St.-Vivant produced at this domaine, the 2003 offers aromatics as well as flavors reminiscent of black fruits drenched in dark chocolate. Full-bodied, velvety-textured, as well as concentrated, it is immensely ripe, crammed with tannin, and vaunts an amazingly long finish

  • 95p
intense spicy black currant nose, flavours explode on the palate, most impressing, not hot at all, very fine.
  • 96p
Ruby. Herbs, light nose of red berries, tight. Even after a few hours, tight. Fresh acidity, but feels hollow, lacks the playfullness and nuances, somewhat too short.
  • 88p
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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

Other wines from this producer

Bâtard-Montrachet

Corton-Charlemagne

Corton Grand Cru

Echézeaux

Grands Echézeaux

La Romanée-Conti Grand Cru

La Tâche

Les Gaudichots

Marc

Montrachet

Richebourg

Romanée Conti

Vosne Romanée

Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cuvée Duvault Blochet

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