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DOMAINE DE LA ROMANEE CONTI
It never fails to astonish me that the strips of vines which stretch only a modest number of meters up the very gentle slopes from the outskirts of an equally modest, indeed remarkably rural rambling of village Vosne, are capable of producing wines of such world class quality.
The strips of vines cultivated by the Domaine include La Tâche (nearly 15 acres), also a monopole or wholly owned vineyard, 13 acres of Romanée-Saint-Vivant--most elegant wine and, I think, fractionally underrated and over 8 acres of the more substantial Richebourg. Then, strictly speaking not in Vosne-Romanée but over the wall, literally uphill from Clos Vougeot, are 8 acres of the superb Grands-Echézeaux and just over 11 of Echézeaux. One thing strikes me forcibly: these five sites prove unquestionably that the French notion of terroir is not a fancy figment of Gallic imagination for the differences between each of the wines is marked, so consistent. Yet all five of the D.R.C. burgundies are made, traditionally, in the same cellars from grapes of the same variety, Pinot Noir.
Michael Broadbent
DRC Assortment--Vintage 1995
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
In original wooden case, banded prior to inspection
Romanée-Conti(1)
La Tâche(3)
Richebourg(2)
Echézeaux(2)
Grand Echézeaux(2)
Romanée-St-Vivant(2)
12 bottles per lot
It never fails to astonish me that the strips of vines which stretch only a modest number of meters up the very gentle slopes from the outskirts of an equally modest, indeed remarkably rural rambling of village Vosne, are capable of producing wines of such world class quality.
The strips of vines cultivated by the Domaine include La Tâche (nearly 15 acres), also a monopole or wholly owned vineyard, 13 acres of Romanée-Saint-Vivant--most elegant wine and, I think, fractionally underrated and over 8 acres of the more substantial Richebourg. Then, strictly speaking not in Vosne-Romanée but over the wall, literally uphill from Clos Vougeot, are 8 acres of the superb Grands-Echézeaux and just over 11 of Echézeaux. One thing strikes me forcibly: these five sites prove unquestionably that the French notion of terroir is not a fancy figment of Gallic imagination for the differences between each of the wines is marked, so consistent. Yet all five of the D.R.C. burgundies are made, traditionally, in the same cellars from grapes of the same variety, Pinot Noir.
Michael Broadbent
DRC Assortment--Vintage 1995
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
In original wooden case, banded prior to inspection
Romanée-Conti(1)
La Tâche(3)
Richebourg(2)
Echézeaux(2)
Grand Echézeaux(2)
Romanée-St-Vivant(2)
12 bottles per lot