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Romanée Conti 1988

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy, France

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Burgundy France
  • 97
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  • Country ranking ?

    717

  • Producer ranking ?

    126

  • Decanting time

    2h

  • When to drink

    now to 2025

  • Food Pairing

    Beef Tenderloin with Shitake and Crisp Rosemary Potatoes

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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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Wine Information

Romanée-Conti led Bonhams Fine & Rare Wines, Cognac and Single Malt Whisky Auction on 21 November 2012 at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong with seven of the top eight lots coming from this iconic Burgundy domaine. A case of the 1988 vintage made HK$1,047,200 (£84,686) and six bottles of the 1995 vintage achieved HK$511,700 (£41,380).

These seven lots of Romanée-Conti all came from a private European collector. "The results show that buyer...

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Vintage 1988

1988 VINTAGE in Burgundy / 1988 has been a good vintage in Burgundy, with enough quantity to offset the revived demand of our foreign and home customers.​

Good summer weather meant an early harvest of excellent quality for the reds. Rich and well structured, these wines which were a little rough in their youth today offer a wonderful opportunity to drink quality mature Pinot Noir, the best will continue to improve. The great whites can be p...

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Average Bottle Price

2017 2015 2014 2012 2010 2005 2000
14 230€ +19.7% 11 890€ +3.0% 11 549€ +42.8% 8 090€ +22.6% 6 598€ +145.3% 2 690€ +62.1% 1 659€

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.

Tasting note

color

Medium

ending

Long, Lingering and Spicy

flavors

Blackberry, Voluptuous, Blackcurrant and Floral

nose

Intense, Ripe, Seductive and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Complex, Well-structured, Medium-bodied, Rich and Ripe

Written Notes

Moderately deep, ruby colour with tawny tints. Ripe but restrained dark fruitnose with perfumed tones of violets and musk. Somehow mystically powerful and seductive nose. Crisp and firm acidity takes a grip on the rich medium-bodied palate. High level of masculine tannins ishidden partly under extracted ripe fruitiness of dark berries – wild strawberries, blackberries and boysenberries. Very powerful experience with rich floral and musky/spicy tones in the lingering finish. Very charming wine with more to come in the future.

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  • 95p

The 1988 DRC La Tache was also corked (DQ), but the 1988 DRC Romanee Conti was just fine. It had a deep, iron nose and was ‘very tight’ per one guest. There was a lot of rock, paper and scissors in the house. This was a stony and zippy vintage of RC, or DRC for that matter, with minerals rippling throughout its finish. The acidity of RC stood out again. I was starting to figure it out :) (95).

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"In 1988 there are 575 cases of Romanee-Conti. Consumers should be deliriously happy, considering there were only 225 cases in 1987. It is more backward than the 1987, 1986, or 1985, and is one of the fullest and most tannic examples of Romanee-Conti I have tasted this decade. It may even outlive the otherworldly 1985. It is staggeringly concentrated with a bouquet that almost defies articulation. There is no doubting what it is and who made it. It is a flashy, dramatic wine with astonishing length and mystique. I would not dare touch a bottle before the mid- to late nineties. The prices for the wines of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti may be exorbitant but the quality of the wines produced in the eighties is truly remarkable. The 1988s are celestial wines selling at stratospheric prices. The 1988 production was twice what it was in 1987, but the same as in 1985. The 1988s are fuller-bodied, deeper, more concentrated wines than the superb 1987s, and will need some time in the cellar to shed their generous amounts of tannin. The only vintage they can be favorably compared with is the 1985 vintage, and the 1985s were a great deal more forward and flattering to taste when young.

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Information

Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Poor

Investment potential

Very Good

Fake factory

Be Cautious

Glass time

2h

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Inside Information

Parker 97p / In 1988 there are 575 cases of Romanee-Conti. Consumers should be deliriously happy, considering there were only 225 cases in 1987. It is more backward than the 1987, 1986, or 1985, and is one of the fullest and most tannic examples of Romanee-Conti I have tasted this decade. It may even outlive the otherworldly 1985. It is staggeringly concentrated with a bouquet that almost defies articulation. There is no doubting what it is and who made it. It is a flashy, dramatic wine with astonishing length and mystique. I would not dare touch a bottle before the mid- to late nineties.

The prices for the wines of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti may be exorbitant but the quality of the wines produced in the eighties is truly remarkable. The 1988s are celestial wines selling at stratospheric prices. The 1988 production was twice what it was in 1987, but the same as in 1985. The 1988s are fuller-bodied, deeper, more concentrated wines than the superb 1987s, and will need some time in the cellar to shed their generous amounts of tannin. The only vintage they can be favorably compared with is the 1985 vintage, and the 1985s were a great deal more forward and flattering to taste when young. There is more depth in the 1988s than in the 1986s or even the superb 1980s (which turned out to be the finest wines made in that underrated vintage).

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