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  • Country ranking ?

    903
  • Producer ranking ?

    162
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

Romanée-Conti lies on brown limestone soils 60 cm deep with a major clay component. Romanée-Saint-Vivant has similar but deeper (90 cm) soils. Higher up, La Romanée occupies a markedly sloping site (12%) and the soil texture is less clayey. La Tâche and La Grande Rue share brown limestone soils, rather shallow at the top end with deeper rendzinas lower down. The same is true for the Richebourg, depending on slope and aspect. The underlying roc...

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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

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 most traditional wineries in France. Wines are produced in small quantities while the demand is huge. The domaine has 25 hectares of vineyards, all Grand Crus, including the jewel in the crown, the 1.8 hectare monopole of Romanée Co...

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The third flight began with a wine that would have exceeded expectations and went beyond its boundaries. SuperSomm noted, ‘fresh raspberry and peach smoothie with a touch of something naughty.’ I was definitely in the Burgundy camp, ‘1971-ish,’ I wrote. If it wasn’t 1971, it had to be 1969 Rousseau, the only wine from that vintage that showed the same freshness, citricity, rose and acidity. The palate was wow times two, long and fantastic. Rose and citricity dominated, and I was stunned to see this be a 1969 DRC Romanee St. Vivant. Many 1969 DRC’s are on the drier and autumnal side, but this was a magical bottle and the greatest 1969 I have ever had, except for Rousseaus, the wines of the vintage without question (96).
  • 96p
Romanée Saint Vivant DRC 1969 Domain Marey Monge farmed out the Romanée St. Vivant vineyard to DRC starting in 1966. In 1988 Romanée-Conti bought Domain Marey Monge. This bottle came from the USA. Ullage was 4cm and the bottle looked much older than it should. Colour of old tiles. Marvellous, explosive nose. Perfect maturity on palate - there were all the "feminine" qualities of St.Vivant - Intense violet perfume and rich and full structure. Good length and balance. Simply a great drink.
  • 94p
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Origin

Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

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Bâtard-Montrachet

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Marc

Montrachet

Richebourg

Romanée Conti

Vosne Romanée

Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cuvée Duvault Blochet

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