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Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Romanee Conti Grand Cru Monopole 2004
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Description
Domaine de la Romanee Conti Romanee Conti Grand Cru comes from an exceptional plot. The last in Burgundy to resist the phylloxera outbreak. However, in the Second World War it couldn’t tolerate the lack of carbon sulfur and for five years it didn’t produce vintages. It’s currently in top form through organic farming with biodynamic treatments. Maturation is exemplary with extremely low yields, leaving nothing to chance and carrying out several selection stages in the vineyard. After manual harvesting, the Domaine de la Romanee Conti Romanee Conti Grand Cru grapes are gently crushed and then macerated with their skins at a controlled temperature. Fermentation takes place in wooden barrels and finally the wine matures for 12 months in new French oak barrels acquired 3 years before and dried by the house cooper. Fruit of a unique Grand Cru, the magnificence of Domaine de la Romanee Conti Romanee Conti Grand Cru is known across the world. An impeccable work both in the vineyard and in harvesting which makes it the dream of every good wine lover. Without a doubt, the most sublime Pinot Noir.
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(est. 2,500-$2,900) Good deep red. Less expressive but still utterly sexy nose offers plum, raspberry, flowers, smoke and earth. Hints at its superb volume but this is quite closed and tightly knit today, and much less expressive and sweet than La Tache. But this superconcentrated wine seemed to gain sweetness with aeration, showing an increasingly fat, seamless texture without any loss of energy as it opened in the glass. Really saturates the palate on the aftertaste, where the tannins are thoroughly buffered by the wine's strong extract and superb depth.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Medium red. Wonderfully aromatic nose combines tangy cherry and raspberry, Oriental spices and mint. Sweet, pure, stylish and youthful; a wine of great finesse. The very long, slow-mounting finish offers terrific purity and grip. This again is also a distinctly feminine style of wine in 2004.
About the Producer
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or DRC is one of the most prestigious wine estates in the world with 25.5 hectares mostly in Vosne-Romanée on the route des Grands Crus in the vineyards of the Côte de Nuits of the Burgundy vineyards (named after the 1.8 hectare Clos de la Romanée-Conti, one of the most prestigious mythical grands crus in the world). The civil company of the same name was founded in 1942 by Edmond Gaudin de Villaine. It is now co-managed for their heir family by the winegrowers Aubert de Villaine and Perrine Fenal.
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