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    1 196
  • Producer ranking ?

    229
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035

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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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2004 Vintage / At the Olympic Games, which took place last summer while the grapes were ripening, victory often depends on few things: a few centimetres or a few seconds, with the complicity of diverse circumstances that are beyond the athlete's control - luck is among them! even though the talent and the work accomplished the months and years before the competition are essential.

It is the same for the vigneron. The challenge that is propo...

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Vintage 2004

2004 VINTAGE in Burgundy

2004 will be remembered as the year of wonderful surprises. The month of September was hot, dry and sunny contributing to an excellent harvest which in turn gave birth to fruity, elegant wines.
The harvest started on the 13th September in Burgundy, the Mâconnais and the Côte Chalonnaise during a long awaited spell of mild weather following a summer characterised by climatic instability. 

These conditions slowed ...

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Tasting note

color

Medium

nose

Intense

recommend

Yes

Written Notes

Perceptibly more complex than La Tâche at this stage, which is not always the case. It already smells of truffles, of morels in cream sauce. Aubert de Villaine said rather wistfully, 'I would Romanée  Conti could be like this every year'. This wine positively dances on the palate – really lively and rich but very chewy with masses of acidity too. There’s a hit of that merest hint of green leaf that is evident in the Richbourg but in this wine there are just so many other elements too. It really is the headiest of cocktails. This should be a truly stunning wine, so obviously great even at this stage.
 

  • 98p

“A supremely beautiful if very reserved nose with a stun- ning melange of spice notes, floral notes, particularly vi- olets, red and black berry fruit aromas plus nuances of earth, game and smoke combine to perfectly complement the equally reserved, pure and unbelievably precise and pure medium full flavors underpinned by sophisticated tannins and huge length while other wines have class, Romanée-Conti defines the term... the most remarkable of all is the wine s ability to aggregate attributes unlike any other... one of the very finest in terms of the delicacy and harmony of expression.”(94pts BH)

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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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