75 cl

95-96/100 PP

"The 2005 Grands-Echezeaux displays an utterly different, less charming personality than its “little” sibling. Fresh black raspberry and black cherry hover between sorbet-like and faintly-caramelized manifestations. The palate is obviously dense, with considerable grip and ultra-fine tannins, incipient silkiness, but not the creaminess of the Echezeaux. Fresh berry, faintly tart fruit skin, and nut oils inform an uncannily kinetic finish that makes one’s mouth quiver.

Once the grapes in these fabled vineyards had reached a potential alcohol of 13%, reports Aubert de Villaine, he was ready to pick, because conditions had seldom been so conducive to perfect ripeness (including that of the stems). It was all done in a week, commencing with La Tache and Romanee Conti, and finishing on September 23 with Romanee-St.-Vivant (and Montrachet, on which I shall report at a future date). De Villaine intended to bottle in March or April by gravity in six-barrel lots, as has become general practice here over the past decade."
(David Schildknecht, Parker-Team)

Die Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (kurz: DRC) ist das prestigeträchtigste Weingut der Erde, sowohl was den Wert des Produktes Wein anbelangt, als auch den Wert des Hektars Ackerland. Die Weinlage La Romanée Conti ist die wohl beste, zumindest aber prestigeträchtigste und teuerste Grand Cru - Lage im ganzen Burgund.