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Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Montrachet Grand Cru 2013
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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Montrachet is surprisingly exotic, tropical and soft in the early going. Pineapple, passion fruit and sweet floral overtones all grace a supple, pliant Montrachet that is likely to peak sooner than some of the surrounding vintages. Tasted at the DRC Montrachet charity event in New York.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Pale yellow. Sexy noble reduction to the musky aromas of lemon zest, flinty minerals, iodine and ginger. Pliant and thick but with buns of steel; powerful acidity and strong salinity frame and intensify the sappy flavors of lemon, grapefruit and iodiney minerality. In the ripest years, this wine can get a bit exotic but this 2013 is classic Montrachet. Wonderfully palate-staining finish.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Pale yellow. Sexy noble reduction to the musky aromas of lemon zest, flinty minerals, iodine and ginger. Pliant and thick but with buns of steel; powerful acidity and strong salinity frame and intensify the sappy flavors of lemon, grapefruit and iodiney minerality. In the ripest years, this wine can get a bit exotic but this 2013 is classic Montrachet. Wonderfully palate-staining finish.
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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