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Wine Description
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 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...
