Romanée-Conti – 2016
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Bertrand de Villaine, 14th December, 2017. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1 Place de l’Église 21700 Vosne-Romanée www.romanee-conti.com Aubert last year on on 2016: “People think the year was bad, only because of one day of frost, and yes we lost 90%… Read More
Romanée-Conti – 2015
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Aubert de Villaine, 15 December, 2016. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1 Place de l’Église 21700 Vosne-Romanée www.romanee-conti.com Aubert on 2016: “People think the year was bad, only because of one day of frost, and yes we lost 90% in Grands-Echézeaux and… Read More
Romanée-Conti – 2014
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Bertrand de Villaine, 14th November, 2015. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1 Place de l’Église 21700 Vosne-Romanée www.romanee-conti.com It’s not often you walk into a cuverie to meet bottles, magnums and jeroboams of Montrachet – from DRC or anybody. They had been bottled… Read More
Romanée-Conti – 2013
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Bertrand de Villaine, 18th November, 2014. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1 Place de l’Église 21700 Vosne-Romanée www.romanee-conti.com Bertrand on 2014: “2014 is a more regular volume than 2013 – double! The hail was not such a great problem in this… Read More
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti: 2010 Vintage
It is a few years since I journeyed to St.Gallen for the local DRC agent’s vintage tasting of the latest DRC vintage – and after this short break, I can’t for the life of me think why I left it so long! Okay, 2010 is a classic Burgundian vintage… Read More
stuart george on his 1937 romanée-conti…
Following on from the post of ‘nine decades of domaine de la romanée-conti‘ there is this follow-up from Stuart George MW referring to the ‘too good to be true‘. It’s missing lots of info, like ‘when was the case bought from the domaine?’, ‘how many owners since then?’… Read More
nine decades of domaine de la romanée-conti…
I was (very kindly!) invited to this event, but unfortunately couldn’t make the date, which saved me from the nitty-gritty conversation of what constitutes ‘an invite’ – a seat, or a seat I had pay for? 😉 Regardless; what a treat! Nine decades of Domaine Romanée-Conti in London,… Read More
rain and romanée-conti security…
It’s an away-day in the Côtes today – actually this is day 1 of 2… A 5:15 alarm this morning as my first appointment was 8:45. Leaden skies the whole way from Switzerland, the rain varied all the way but never enough to take the window wipers off ‘intermittent’. Read More
Corton rejoins the Romanée-Conti family…
Aubert de Villaine stands in front of Corton Clos du Roi Towards the northern limits of the the hill of Corton lies the small town of Ladoix, or more correctly Ladoix-Serrigny – this is the most northerly of the Côte de Beaune villages. Perhaps the town’s major piece… Read More