1 dozen bottles per lot
Details
ROMANEE-CONTI 1934
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is justly lauded as the pre-eminent,
greatest red wine estate in the whole of Burgundy. It owns exclusively the Grand Cru vineyards of Romanée Conti and La Tâche. It was a pioneer of Domaine bottling and has been a standard-bearer of authenticity, complexity and quality for the whole region throughout
the twentieth century.
Until the 1945 vintage, the estate succeeded in maintaining the
plantations of un-grafted, pre-phylloxera vines through the Romanée
Conti vineyard. In the years before World War Two, yields were
derisory, but in great years like 1934, legendary wines were produced. AH.
The Romanée Conti 1934 is a mythical wine that few have had the
pleasure to taste, to find such a great wine in an American collection is quite rare, especially since it was purchased in 1936 and remianed in the same cellar until 2004.
Romanée-Conti--Vintage 1934
Côte de Nuits, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Levels: five 2.5cm, one 3cm, three 3.5cm, two 4cm and one 4.5cm; three slightly chipped capsules, four slightly corroded capsules, two slightly nicked labels
Tasting note from a representative bottle from this cellar: Amber-red, with orange rim, the nose being fragrant, fresh and spicy. To taste this wine is to be totally beguiled. Every element has merged, to form a fleshy, succulent, silky whole whose beauty and sweetness - yet with a dry finish - are captivating. Of course : Romanée-Conti is reputed the greatest red Burgundy, and is, for many, the world's most astonishing and perfect wine. I need look no further here is why. AH
1 dozen bottles per lot
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is justly lauded as the pre-eminent,
greatest red wine estate in the whole of Burgundy. It owns exclusively the Grand Cru vineyards of Romanée Conti and La Tâche. It was a pioneer of Domaine bottling and has been a standard-bearer of authenticity, complexity and quality for the whole region throughout
the twentieth century.
Until the 1945 vintage, the estate succeeded in maintaining the
plantations of un-grafted, pre-phylloxera vines through the Romanée
Conti vineyard. In the years before World War Two, yields were
derisory, but in great years like 1934, legendary wines were produced. AH.
The Romanée Conti 1934 is a mythical wine that few have had the
pleasure to taste, to find such a great wine in an American collection is quite rare, especially since it was purchased in 1936 and remianed in the same cellar until 2004.
Romanée-Conti--Vintage 1934
Côte de Nuits, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Levels: five 2.5cm, one 3cm, three 3.5cm, two 4cm and one 4.5cm; three slightly chipped capsules, four slightly corroded capsules, two slightly nicked labels
Tasting note from a representative bottle from this cellar: Amber-red, with orange rim, the nose being fragrant, fresh and spicy. To taste this wine is to be totally beguiled. Every element has merged, to form a fleshy, succulent, silky whole whose beauty and sweetness - yet with a dry finish - are captivating. Of course : Romanée-Conti is reputed the greatest red Burgundy, and is, for many, the world's most astonishing and perfect wine. I need look no further here is why. AH
1 dozen bottles per lot
Provenance
Provenance:
Purchased by Doris Duke in 1936 from Bellows and Company, New York
Cellared at Duke Farms, New Jersey 1936-2004
Thereafter with Christie's