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Parker 99 points: The 2012 Romanee-Conti Grand Cru was picked on September 22. Even from barrel it offers spine-tingling delineation and precision on the nose, showing a slight stemmy note that will be subsumed once in bottle. In keeping with the theme of the vintage, the bouquet is angelically pure, the fruit a little darker than the La Tache with a dried petal element emerging with time. The palate is symmetrical with perfectly judged acidit...
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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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2012 Vintage
In some years the birth of a vintage is easy. The vigneron's intervention is quiet and rare, as that of the crew of a sailboat navigating by calm weather. But it is not rare that the road towards the birth of a vintage looks like war, a constant fight to keep the boat afloat without too much damage. That was the case in 2012, a unique vintage - but which isn't? -and those who were in the front line will remember for a long time...
Vintage 2012
2012 was beset by unusual weather that didn’t spare the vines! A mild winter, spring-like March, cool spring with frosts, summer-like May, cooler, wetter June, a variable summer with heatwaves, hail and storms… Because of the cold damp spring, some of the vine flowers didn’t set and form fruit, there was millerandage (where the flowers aren’t fully fertilised and give small berries) and high pressure from mildew and odium. Temperatures went ri...
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Average Bottle Price
| 2015 |
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| 11 322€ |
This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.