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...
Vintage 1976
The 1976 wine vintage in Burgundy was a highly unique, blockbuster, and deeply controversial year that was entirely driven by a historic and blistering summer drought. The intense heatwave caused the Pinot Noir grapes to ripen rapidly, yielding a tiny harvest of thick-skinned berries with maximum sugar concentration and exceptionally low natural acidity. This resulted in dense, dark, and highly alcoholic red Burgundies that tasted more like ri...
