2005 Romanée-St-Vivant, Grand Cru, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
- David Schildknecht
- 96-97/100
Product: 20058122148
Description
The Domaine's holding covers 5.28 hectares in one single block. This formerly belonged to the Marey-Monge family but was farmed and made by the Domaine from 1966 and purchased by them in 1988. It is a beautifully refined, stylish wine, perhaps having more in common with La Romanée Conti itself than the more rugged Richebourg.
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2005
Alcohol % 13
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC)
Critics reviews
David Schildknecht 96-97/100
Just as this years Echezeaux challenges the quality of the Grands-Echezeaux, another surprise of the vintage is a spectacular showing for the 2005 Romanee-St.-Vivant. A startlingly dark, mouth-watering amalgam of purple plum paste, blackberry preserves, bitter chocolate, toasted walnut, soy, and raw beef intrigues the nose. On the palate, this cleaves to the dark side, with viscous, mouth-coating concentration of lightly-cooked black fruits, charred meat, mysterious forest floor complexity, and bitter-sweet florality, but simultaneously delivers a vibratory finish like that of the energetic Grands-Echezeaux. With its palpable extract, profound personality, and refined but abundant tannins, this is surely wine to set aside for at least a decade.David Schildknecht - 30/04/2007
About this wine
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC)
Domaine de la Romanée Conti is co-owned by the de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families, the former successors to Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet who bought the vineyard of La Romanée Conti in 1869, the latter since acquiring the shares of other descendants of Duvault-Blochet in 1942. The domaine is today run by Aubert de Villaine. Many people in Burgundy just refer to 'DRC' as "the Domaine".
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