The 2019 Romanée-St-Vivant Grand Cru wafts from the glass with breathtaking aromas of raspberries and strawberries mingled with bergamot, Indian spices, peonies and rose petals. Full-bodied, vibrant and perfumed, it's finer boned than the more muscular Grands-Échézeaux, with a bright spine of acidity and beautifully refined tannins, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Striking for its purity and elegance, my handwritten notes include the phrase "pure sensuality."
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
The 2017 Romanée-St-Vivant Grand Cru was also showing very well indeed, soaring from the glass with scents of cassis, violets, blood orange, cinnamon and espresso roast that are complemented by carnal nuances of smoked duck and musk. On the palate, it's full-bodied, multidimensional and enveloping, with terrific concentration, rich and powdery structuring tannins and a long, saline finish. This is a dramatic, head-turning Romanée-St-Vivant in the making, and it is showing even better in bottle than it did from barrel.
El Romanée-St-Vivant Grand Cru 2016 es magnífico, estalla en la copa con un bouquet caleidoscópico de popurrí, bayas rojas, cassis, peonía y pétalos de rosa. En boca, el vino tiene cuerpo, es amplio y de hueso fino, con ácidos acidulados, una concentración soberbia y un amplio chasis de taninos estructurantes pulverulentos, que concluyen con un final largo y fragante. Se trata de un Romanée-St-Vivant que ejemplifica la intensidad sin peso que distingue a los mejores vinos del Domaine, y que iguala la fabulosa versión de 2015.
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2015 Romanée-St-Vivant Grand Cru was showing superbly from bottle, bursting from the glass with a dramatic and expressive bouquet of rose petal, violet, raspberry and spicy red cherry that has already digested its framing of new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, expansive and supple, its frame of fine-grained tannins cloaked in a deep core of vibrant fruit and only asserting themselves on the long, penetrating finish. This is a superb Romanée-St-Vivant that nips on the heels of the fabulous Richebourg this year. Cropped at 26 hectoliters per hectare and harvested September 9, 10 and 11.
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
The Domaine de La Romanee-Conti's 2006 Romanee-St.-Vivant charts its own mysterious path, dissimilar to that of their Grands-Echezeaux, as well as reflecting the strides in quality that have manifestly been achieved in recent years in this site, more than at any other at this domaine. Iris, buddleia, and musky narcissus-like floral perfume; ripe purple plum and blackberry; sassafras and licorice; along with smoked meat and a hoisin-like amalgam of spices and soy all waft alluringly from the glass. The tannins here are ultra-refined and there is a vintage-typical sense of levity, despite all of the dark intrigue of enveloping black fruits, forest floor, fungal, and carnal flavors that persist on the palate. Here is an uncanny alliance of the sensual and thought-provoking such as only great red Burgundy among the world's red wines can engender, and if this wine doesn't stimulate in you cravings and wonder at once, the fault is doubtless in yourself and not the glass. It seems to marry the brightness and finesse of the 2002 with the texturally richness of the (unexpectedly fine) 2000, two standouts in recent tasting of Romanee-St.-Vivant that I was privileged to attend. But there is much more depth here, and I expect that this wine's beauty will be worth pondering and savoring for at least two decades.
Al igual que el Echezeaux de este año desafía la calidad del Grands-Echezeaux, otra sorpresa de la añada es la espectacular presentación del Romanee-St.-Vivant 2005. Una amalgama sorprendentemente oscura y apetitosa de pasta de ciruela púrpura, confitura de moras, chocolate amargo, nuez tostada, soja y carne cruda intriga en nariz. En boca, este vino se aferra al lado oscuro, con una concentración viscosa y envolvente de frutos negros ligeramente cocidos, carne carbonizada, una misteriosa complejidad del suelo del bosque y una floralidad agridulce, pero al mismo tiempo ofrece un final vibrante como el de los enérgicos Grands-Echezeaux. Con su extracto palpable, su profunda personalidad y sus taninos refinados pero abundantes, se trata sin duda de un vino para guardar durante al menos una década.
Quizás el mayor Romanee-St.-Vivant producido en este domaine, el 2003 ofrece aromas y sabores que recuerdan a frutas negras bañadas en chocolate negro. De gran cuerpo y textura aterciopelada, además de concentrado, es inmensamente maduro, repleto de taninos y con un final sorprendentemente largo.
The 2001 Romanee-St.-Vivant is ruby-colored and sports a nose of white pepper, spices, and black cherries. Light to medium-bodied, it is juicy, delicate, and reveals an oak-laced red fruit-flavored character. This complex, lace-like wine tightens in the finish, displaying notes of vanilla-laced new oak. Drink it over the next 6-7 years.
Discover the depth and richness of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - Romanée-Saint Vivant - Grand Cru, crafted by the renowned Domaine de la Romanee Conti. This exquisite red wine showcases the best of its region, offering a symphony of flavors that include ripe berries, subtle spices, and hints of oak. Perfect for elevating any meal or occasion.
The 1999 Romanee-St-Vivant initially has its nose put out of joint by the precocious 1999 Echezeaux, but allowing the wine to unfold over 30 to 40 minutes, it shows its true breeding. Returning after ten minutes, the nose positively explodes from the glass with a sorbet-like purity – hints of wild strawberry, cassis and a little blueberry – a piercing intensity that is wondrous to behold. The palate is medium-bodied and does not have the volume of the 1999 Echezeaux, but there is superior clarity and focus, the tannins clearly fine and the finish shimmering with tension and femininity. This is just a beautiful wine that will only get better. Drink 2016-2030.
