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Domaine de la Romanee Conti Wines

Domaine de la Romanee Conti Wines

Domaine de la Romanee Conti Wines

Domaine de la Romanee Conti Wines that Allow Nature to Speak in Her Truest, Purest Voice


Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, based in Burgundy, is one of the most well-established and reputable wine producers in the whole world. It is famous for producing only a small amount of each brand (usually around 6,000-8,000 cases per year), and it takes a considerable investment to own even a single bottle. Every wine enthusiast worth their salt wishes to visit this legendary location, but only a few of them ever get the chance to do so, making it a prestigious achievement.

The winery belongs to Aubert de Villaine and Henri-Frédéric Roch families, who have managed it since 1942. To this day, their representatives nurture the noble soil of the winery and the vines themselves using old-fashioned, traditional methods – primarily by hand, using the horse and plow. There is no substitute for direct and loving care of your fruits, and the producers are aware of that. Every wine bottle contains a small taste of a time long gone, and the best producers in the world always strive to preserve some of that traditional value and the connection to our ancestry. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti use only natural yeasts, and they stay away from pesticides and anything that could ruin the sacred, pristine taste of their fresh, supple grapes.

As a result of this discipline, their wines are otherworldly in flavor, texture, and longevity. The 100% pure oak barrels used to ferment these wines paint a dreamy picture of how old monks used to live way before our time, with an earthy, almost arboreal baseline that brings to mind lush forests of fruit and flower, ripe for the picking. Every label commands respect among wine enthusiasts, and you have a wide selection of vintage bottles to aspire towards. Some of the best ones come from 1929, 1945, 1961, 1969, 1971, 1978, 1991, 1999, 2005, 2009, and 2010. If you are fortunate enough to obtain one of these, the divine flavor and texture may be mixed with a bittersweet feeling that comes with opening a bottle of this status.
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1993 drc la tache Burgundy Red

(Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche Grand Cru Red) The nose evidences a slight floral quality, and a fascinating mix of earth, leather, tea and spice notes plus an interesting green bark component. The slightly austere, tannic, wonderfully rich flavors are dense, in fact extremely dense with excellent depth and terrific complexity and a finish that seems to go on forever. Though there are now hints of secondary aromas, this remains very young, structured and remarkably intense. When you get the right bottle, the ’93 can be a real stunner. Note: the inconsistency of this wine continues unabated as a bottle opened at the Domaine recently was almost aggressively vegetal and awkward. In short, when it’s good it’s very good but I’ve now had too many disappointing bottles not to be wary. (Drink starting 2018)Burghound | 95 BHLight red. Beautiful nose, very youthful and pure. A vegetal note emerges with air. Packed with dense fruit and marked by a very firm structure of both acidity and dense tannins. The fruit is locked up right now in this massive, powerful La Tâche. Rather than open in the glass, this appears to close up, but have faith; this will be great.--La Tâche non-blind vertical. Best from 2010 through 2030. — BSWine Spectator | 95 WS

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2009 drc la tache Burgundy Red

Fine colour. Really quite closed on the nose: even more so than the Richebourg. Lovely perfumed cassis nose. A big, backward, quite tannic wine with excellent grip. More austere than the Richbourg. But it has even more depth and intensity. Very lovely.Decanter | 100 DECThe 2009 La Tâche Grand Cru is still a decade away from the plenitude of maturity, but it’s already a head-turning wine, soaring from the glass with an extravagant bouquet of rose petal, Asian spices, grilled meats, rock salt, espresso roast, rich soil tones, plums and dark chocolate. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, ample and richly structured around fine-grained chalky tannins, with a deep and multidimensional core and succulent underlying acids, concluding with a long, fragrant finish. This is an utterly classic La Tâche that ranks among the vintage’s high points.Robert Parker Wine Advocate | 98 RPThe 2009 La Tâche Grand Cru is the most ethereal of the three wines in this flight. Whole cluster influence is especially marked here. A whole range of spice, dried flower, mint and savory overtones infuse the 2009 with layers of nuance. Next to the other wines in this flight, La Tâche is ethereal and harder to fully capture with words, an attribute many, if not most, of the world’s greatest wines share.Vinous Media | 98 VM(Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche Grand Cru Red) A discreet but incredibly complex nose features notes of spicy, pure and relatively high-toned fruit that is laced with plenty of rose petal and violet hints. There is excellent energy and freshness to the lacy and stunningly precise broad-scaled flavors that build in intensity from the densely concentrated mid-palate to the explosive and mouth coating finish that seemingly goes on without end. This is a big LT with ample muscle and very firm but not aggressive structure along with superb depth of underlying material and positively mind-blowing length. But the real genius of this wine is the Zen-like harmony and poise though note that it is very tightly wound and will need many years of cellaring before it will be completely ready. In a word, magnificent. (Drink starting 2034).Burghound | 98 BHNoticeably oaky and darker than its siblings, evoking black cherry, licorice and spice. On the palate, there’s depth and concentration, with a menthol note that persists through the long finish. The mouthcoating tannins will require some time to integrate.--Non-blind 2009 DRC tasting (February 2012). Best from 2016 through 2042.Wine Spectator | 97 WS

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