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Wine Description
The Story
La Romanée's tiny 0.84ha, under half the size of its neighbour La Romanée-Conti, make it the smallest Appellation Controlée in France. A monopoly of the Liger Belair family since the 1830s, La Romanée is just above La Romanée-Conti and therefore has a slightly steeper slope and shallower soil. Since 2002 the wine has been made by Vicomte Louis Michel Liger-Belair who heads up the Domaine du Comte Liger Belair estate, turning La Romanée into on...
Vintage 1947
The 1947 wine vintage in Burgundy is legendary and universally regarded as one of the greatest, most opulent, and most historic vintages of the 20th century. A scorching, intensely hot summer led to exceptionally high natural sugar concentration and massive fruit extraction, yielding rich, velvety Pinot Noirs with dizzying aromatic complexity. While the extreme heat caused tricky fermentations for many winemakers due to soaring sugars, the res...
