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Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Romanee Conti Grand Cru Monopole 2009
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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: Antonio Galloni
The 2009 Romanée-Conti is surprisingly huge and even obvious in this vintage. That isn't a problem, just an observation. Romanée-Conti can be an elusive, intensely cerebral wine, but not in 2009. Floral notes add lift on the vivid, kaleidoscopic finish. Today the Romanée-Conti is all about breathtaking exuberance and richness. This is a breathtaking bottle.
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2009 Romanée-Conti is elusive and mysterious. Each taste reveals a different shade of the wine's multi-dimensional, kaleidoscopic personality. As is often the case in great years, Romanée-Conti is a wine of contrasts; open yet inward, seductive yet elusive. It's all there in the glass. Dark wild cherries, sweet spices, mint and flowers are some of the nuances that wrap around the palate on the eternal, majestic finish.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good deep red with ruby highlights. Blackberry, boysenberry, violet and peppery herbs on the reticent nose. The palate offers an extraordinary combination of volume and energy, showing classically dry fruit, fresh herb and pepper flavors and less obvious power today than La Tache. But this is also an outsized wine, with a saline, mouth-saturating finish that features great finesse of tannins and superb subtle thrust. Plenty of herbal, spicy, peppery evidence of whole-cluster vinification. The toughest of these wines today and in need of at least 10 or 12 years of cellaring.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright ruby-red. Knockout nose offers great floral lift and perfume to the aromas of huckleberry, wild herbs, pepper and spices; shows a chocolatey nuance with aeration but this is the highest-pitched of these 2009s. Wonderfully suave and scented on the palate; less obvious in its textural richness than the La Tache but finer-grained, and with firm underlying backbone. This saturates the entire palate without leaving any impression of weight. There are intriguing wild herb and pepper nuances here that are the precursors of more decadent underbrush and tobacco leaf.
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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