2019 Romanee St Vivant
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The 2019 Romanée St. Vivant Grand Cru picks up where the Grands Echézeaux leaves off. What a wine! Complete and beautifully resonant, the Romanée St. Vivant offers up copious dark fruit intermingled with dried herbs, lavender, graphite and coffee. It’s a rich, dramatic Romanée St. Vivant that will reward decades of cellaring. In most years, Romanée St. Vivant is a wine of sensuality, but in 2019 it is quite brooding and potent in bearing. Magnificent.
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Neal Martin, Vinous
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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45-year-old vines were picked on 20 and 21 September and yielded just 18 hl/ha. 1,351 cases made. Intensely perfumed. Dramatic! More red-cherry flavours, plus Vosne savour. Such energy! This one hogs the stage – demands attention. Particularly fine, sandy tannins. Really quite delicate on the end. Quite flashy for a DRC wine. Firm and yet very fine-boned.
45-year-old vines were picked on 20 and 21 September and yielded just 18 hl/ha. 1,351 cases made. Intensely perfumed. Dramatic! More red-cherry flavours, plus Vosne savour. Such energy! This one hogs the stage – demands attention. Particularly fine, sandy tannins. Really quite delicate on the end. Quite flashy for a DRC wine. Firm and yet very fine-boned. (JR)
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."
About the producer
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.