Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) is an estate in Burgundy, France that produces white and red wine. The winery was originally founded by Aubert de Villaine and Lalou Bize-Leroy. It is held in high regard by wine critics and enthusiasts. Of its flagship wine produced from the Romanée-Conti vineyard, the eminent wine critic Clive Coates says
The scarcest, most expensive - and frequently the best - wine in the world ... If you can lay your hands on a case - and that is a big 'if' - you would have to pay £5,000 or more for a young vintage, double or treble for a wine in its prime. ... This is the purest, most aristocratic and most intense example of Pinot Noir you could possibly imagine. Not only nectar: a yardstick with which to judge all other Burgundies.[1]
DRC owns holdings in several vineyards in Burgundy. Of these, La Tâche and Romanée-Conti are DRC monopoles. DRC also owns significant portions of other Vosne-Romanée grand crus: Echézeaux, Grands Echézeaux, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, and Richebourg. DRC produces a small amount of white burgundy from grand cru Montrachet.[2]
DRC also formerly produced a wine known as Les Gaudichots, from a vineyard which has since been reclassified as part of La Tâche.
[edit] References
- ^ Clive Coates, Côte d'Or University of California Press 1997 pg 596 ISBN 0-520-21251-7
- ^ Anthony Hanson Burgundy pg 310-313 Mitchell Beazley ISBN 1-840009-136
