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Still, it was a pretty bottle. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s 1961 La Tâche was one of the greatest wines I have ever had the privilege of drinking. Deeply colored for a wine of its age, it offered up an exotic array of aromatics and flavors, with plenty of fruit to fill out its frame.
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PRODUCTION: 1,444 cases. This is an odd performing wine, with an intense, vegetal nose which, if I did not know I was tasting La Tache, I would have thought was a 20-year old Pinot Noir or Cabernet Sauvignon from Monterey, California. The color exhibits considerable brown and orange, and the wine reveals a compact, surprisingly austere style for a DRC wine. Some tasters dwelled on the intellectual side of this wine, noting it had personality and character, but from a hedonistic point of view it was mediocre, not to mention bizarre.
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or simply “DRC” is without doubt the most famous domaine in Burgundy and one of the most famous producers on earth. The Grand Cru vineyard from which it takes its name produces the world’s most expensive wine by a long margin.