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Romanée Conti 2002

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy, France

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Burgundy France
  • 98
    Points
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  • 9 Pros of
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650 98
  • Taste
  • Moment

  • Country ranking ?

    483

  • Producer ranking ?

    70

  • Decanting time

    4h

  • When to drink

    now to 2040

  • Food Pairing

    Slow Cooked Short Ribs

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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

2002 Harvest / A national daily ran today as a headline : « Sumptuous harvest in Burgundy ». It is true indeed that the end of the Summer was glorious with sunny days that we no longer expected and that fulfilled the most demanding dreams of the vignerons.
Never more than this year have we felt how much a vintage in Burgundy can depend on two or three days only : if these days are rainy, there will be an explosion of botytris, complete maturi...

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Vintage 2002

2002 VINTAGE in Burgundy

A Great Year 

The trade is unanimous: the harvest was exceptional and 2002 is destined to be a great vintage for Burgundy. A dry summer, a sunny September, splendid grapes with highly concentrated sugars - everything came together to produce structured and complex wines with outstanding aromatic potential.
As early as the beginning of September, the sugar content in the grapes was often at exceptionally high lev...

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Average Bottle Price

2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005
10 944€ +8.7% 10 067€ +6.6% 9 445€ +1.3% 9 326€ +54.3% 6 044€ +125.2% 2 684€

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

Light, Ruby red and Bright

ending

Long, Lingering and Vibrant

flavors

Raspberry, Cherry, Mineral and Floral

nose

Youthful, Complex, Fresh and Seductive

taste

High in Acidity, Warming, Medium tannin, Perfectly balanced, Medium-bodied, Fresh, Silky, Perfumed and Silky tannins

Verdict

Sophisticated and Impressive

Written Notes

2002 made me want to pull out a dozen clichés such as .the real deal,. .the same as it ever was,. .the best of the best.. The nose was unbelievably great, phenomenal, awe-inspiring and death-defying, if you will. It is really hard for a young wine to turn me on like this Romanee Conti (and Richebourg for that matter) did. What amazed me the most was how inviting and warm the fruit was in the nose. There was incredible depth of rose, plum, cassis and blackberry aromas. The wine was heavy, yet light on its feet as far as its nose was concerned. Ladies and gentlemen, the heavyweight champion of the worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrld, Romanee Conti! (Applaud now). There were also stems, smoke, coal, forest and chocolate in the nose. The palate was rich, luscious, thick and seductively long. The wine kept getting more and more exotic, and although I assume that the wine will have to shut down in the bottle sooner or later, for the time being all I could say was .wow wow wow..
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  • 98p

Like many 2002s at five years of age, this is really beginning to close up and become a good deal less expressive. Vigorous swirling however coaxes a superbly detailed if reluctant nose of dried rose petals, kirsch and plenty of spice elements. The medium weight plus flavors are taut, focused, very backward, powerful and punchy and like the nose, blessed with seriously impressive detail and layer after layer of sappy extract and incredible depth. Impeccably balanced with a certain tenderness here with tannins that are sophisticated and quite fine with the classic Romanée-Conti character of an almost spiritual sense of harmony. Though it will need a lot of time, this will become a great vintage for Romanée-Conti.

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  • 97p

The 2002 Romanée-Conti Grand Cru was picked on September 21 at 25hl/ha. It is a very fine wine, if not belonging to the very highest echelon of Romanée-Conti like the 1999 or 2005. Appearance-wise, it has a little more degradation on the rim than expected. It feels uncompromising and forthright on the nose and I can just feel that stem addition, hints of bell pepper and iron filings complementing the brambly red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a silky texture, perfect acidity and linearity. It is here that this Romanée-Conti comes into its own, conveying unerring symmetry and poise and extraordinary length. It is by no means a perfect wine yet it is disarmingly alluring. 5,548 bottles produced. Drink through 2055

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  • 96p

Knockout nose: complex red fruits with a subtle tarry overlay, some chocolatey richness and a lovely fresh, spicy, herby element. There’s a sweetness and richness to the fruit. It’s quite profound. The palate is concentrated and taut with lovely spicy structure, generous fruit and good acidity. There’s an earthy, minerally underlay to the fruit. Very concentrated with firm structure and some richness: long and elegant, this has a great future ahead of it. Excellent 98/100

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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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