Ira Schwartz

9.1

When you see DRC on the label it’s difficult not to have preconceptions. The nose pops with red cherries ,stems and spice. The palate is hit with weighty red and black fruit which carries a healthy dose of acid. Surprisingly lacked the complexity and finish I was hoping for from a vintage like this let alone the producer. — 4 months ago

Daron Watson

9.5

Vintage Lambic “which has matured for three years in oakwood barrels and has been selected for its exceptional colour, taste and flavour.”
“Powerful yet elegant, Bruocsella can be considered the missing link between the worlds of wine and beer. Since there is no secondary fermentation in the bottle Bruocsella is a flat, non-sparkling beer.”
“This aristocratic beer is to our national beer patrimony what Mouton-Rotschild, Petrus or Romanée-Conti are to the wines.”

apples, dried apricot, candied ginger, honey, soft cheese rind

addition of artisanal bread, cantaloupe, apricot marmalade ~ ricola

gritty woody breadth w an intense sour acidic mid palate lift
— 4 years ago

Tony Chen

9.6

Wonderful Richebourg, even though can’t compare to DRC , but great value. Needed about few more years . — 5 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.7

No. 2 in the Vosne Romanee Grand Cru bracket. Tasted blind. My brief note (sensory overload has set in again!): A perfumed woody smokiness - sweet and gorgeous with a beautiful texture and mouthfeel. “ With Romanee Conti to its eastern boundary it is similar but slightly different. Les Richebourgs to its northern boundary. La Romanee is a Monopole owned by the Liger-Belair family and is the smallest appellation in France at. 0.8452 hectares producing only 250 to 350 cases each vintage. A wonderful wine with at least 2 decades of cellaring before it reaches its peak. — 5 years ago

Vijay Parikh

9.1

Functional Brûlée’s from a decanter. Enjoyable. But on a night with DRC and Meo and also@lacking the age was a tough situation — 7 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.6

No. 5 in the Vosne Romanee bracket. My notes said “This is La Tache “ which proved to be wrong. All tasted blind to reiterate. Intoxicating aromas of florals red fruit and a hint of sandalwood. Similar energy on the palate but medium weight with some austerity at the finish. Not as full bodied as some DRC Richebourgs I have had. JH said “effortless complexity “. — 8 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.7

Drc dinner at la paulee this wss brought by a guy at the dinner# thus wine came when conti leased rhe land and then it became owned by them — 4 months ago

Vanessa

9.1

Burgundy 🇫🇷 is renowned for its Chardonnay, but did you know that Aligoté is the second most planted white grape in the region? 👀

Some of the finest Aligoté comes from ‘Bouzeron,’ an appellation in the Côte Chalonnaise region (north of Mâconnais, south of Côte d’Or).

In a land of Pinot Noir & Chardonnay, Bouzeron AOC is 100% dedicated to producing Aligoté 🙌🏻. In fact, it first became a legally-recognized AOC in 1998 thanks in part to the efforts of Aubert de Villaine, the winemaker behind this beautiful bottle. 👏🏻

Interestingly, Aubert is also a co-owner & co-Director of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) (and, as an aside, was on the tasting panel for the 1976 Judgement of Paris 😆)…

Yet, instead of devoting himself exclusively to DRC — one of the world’s most famous and prestigious estates — he and his wife, Pamela (a California native), were enchanted by the possibilities of Aligoté, and terroir of Bouzeron, where they put down roots through “Domaine de Villaine”.

This wine is Domaine de Villaine Bouzeron AOC (2019). It has a shimmering lemon robe and bouquet of white blossom, just-ripe white peach, yellow apple, pear, citrus, fennel, and wet slate notes. It’s remarkably fresh on the palate with mouth-watering acidity balancing the warm (14% ABV) and fruit-driven profile. It’s positively delicious!

We’re pairing it w/ pan-seared sea scallops, roasted asparagus, & lemon-herbed farro…

Cheers to nurturing the diversity of Burgundy in all of its splendor! 🥂
💙🤍♥️ — 2 years ago

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Dennis Hogenkamp

9.6

13.8% ABV, 16 months in barrel 57% new oak.
Some clonal material from Mt. Eden which traces back to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
Savory red fruits, aging well. Beautiful wine! — 4 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.0

Nice Provence Rose from Le Domaine de Triennes & the team of, Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée Conti & Jacques Seysses of Dujac.

Classic, well crafted, great on a warm day & palate shifter from white to red. Excellent QPR @ $15...not giving up my Domaine Tempier habit but, will get worked into the mix.

I won’t open another bottle for one to two more years. Needs some bottle evolution to soften its sweetness and integrate in IMHO. — 5 years ago

Victor Hwang

9.7

Wow. DRC like. Seductive powerful nose. Strawberry, wet socks, hay, earth on the nose. A full powerful body but so so good and can age another 10-20 years. Hints of eucalyptus and a 30 second finish. This is amazing — 6 years ago

Rich Janson

9.8

Lucky enough to have this bottle passed my way at RN74 in Seattle one fine evening. Unbelievably well preserved. First impression is smoke and oakiness. Cheers to those who shared it with us! — 7 years ago

Matt Lichtenberg

9.7

Drank alongside the 93 DRC RSV. Nose on the Leroy is the Jenna Jameson of Vosne-Romanée but the DRC is the clear master of Romanee St Vivant in this flight. Leroy has the nose, DRC the palate... — 8 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

10

DRC DINNER LA PAULEE! Magnum# — 4 months ago

Vijay Parikh

9.6

Stellar bottle! Fully resolved with complex tertiary flavors — 4 months ago

Vanessa

9.0

The Côte de Nuits – situated in the Côte d’Or region of Burgundy, France – is best known for its Pinot Noir 🍇wines hailing from famous villages such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, etc., in which some of Burgundy’s most renowned grands and premiers cru vineyards are located such as La Tâche and Romanée-Conti … 🍷🍷

Yet the Côte de Nuits produces a small amount of white and rosé wine, too!

In fact, the appellation of Marsannay (a northerly neighbor to Gevrey-Chambertin AOC) is the only village level AOC permitting production of not only red and white wine, but rosé wine, as well; it’s gaining recognition for its ability to deliver excellent quality wine for the price (QPR)! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Here we have a Marsannay made with Chardonnay from the “Les Longeroies” vineyard 🌱, located on a gentle, southeast-facing slope ☀️ with cooling influences from the prevailing winds. 🌬️

It’s a pale gold wine with developing notes of yellow apple, pear, white nectarine, lemon curd, honeysuckle, blossom, chamomile, wet slate, delicate butterscotch, cream, brioche, honey, and crushed hazelnut.

It has a creamy texture and rounded mouthfeel, balanced and lifted by the pleasant acidity and primary fruit notes.

Domaine Régis Bouvier Marsannay Les Longeroies (2017) ABV 13%

Cheers to exploring the beauty of Burgundy!! 🥂🥂
— 2 years ago

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Mike Saviage

9.5

Deep tawny color. Almost opaque. Exotic nose. Notes of raspberries, Asian spice, black pepper and a little bit of stem. Rich and fruit forward in the mouth. Got better and better with air; in hour 7 you’d be guessing blind this is DRC. — 5 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

Nice wine that needs more time but clearly outclassed by the DRC — 6 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.8

No. 3 in the Vosne Romanee Grand Cru lineup. My blind tasting notes - “Concentrated Latent and Long. A huge future - amazing potential. I think DRC - La Tache?” The latter assumption proving to be wrong as that was Wine No. 1. Nevertheless the quality of the 2015 Grand Crus from Vosne Romanee are beyond question. Buy as many as you can afford. — 6 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

A lovely precise nose. Real clarity, with red and blue fruit, salinity, gnarly blue tang. Stems and a btightbherbaceius note. Very pure, lifted and focused. Thought it was drc. This is beautiful — 8 years ago

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