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Domaine de la Romanée Conti, La Tache Grand Cru 2004
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(est. 900-$1,250) Good bright, deep red. Wonderfully perfumed, nuanced nose offers raspberry, smoke, earth, white truffle and this vineyard's typical cocktail of Oriental spices. Compellingly silky-sweet and suave on the palate, with great aromatic lift to the red fruit, spice and mineral flavors. This offers a rare combination of high and low tones on the nose and palate. Taut and sharply focused wine, finishing with superb, palate-saturating minerally persistence and great finesse of tannins. A great 2004.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good deep red. Dark raspberry, flowers and exotic spices on the nose. The sweetest on entry to this point, then quite tightly wound in the middle, with lively acids giving it an impression of weightlessness. Less obviously dense and layered today than the last couple of wines, but this is longer, finishing with a real whiplash of fruits, flowers and minerals.
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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