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1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-St. Vivant

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; 5 cm ullage; light label condition issue

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased at auction

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RATINGS

92Robert M. Parker Jr.

I found the 1990 to have a pervasive earthy, cinnamon, clove, sweet fruit-scented nose intermingled with scents of spicy new oak. Although closed, the wine exhibits great depth, medium to full body...

92Burghound.com

Extremely rich and ripe with explosive aromas of Vosne spice, earth and only a touch of secondary nuance followed by big, indeed even robust flavors that show good muscle but no rusticity...

90Wine Spectator

18Jancis Robinson

...Chestnuts and vivacity, very firm and very slightly dusty super-ripe fruit. Great power and flourish though very slightly more rustic than the 1996. Long and winning, though notably robust!

Clive Coates

Medium-full colour. Fine nose. Racy, lacy, intense, individual. Excellent fruit on the palate. Really lovely petits fruit rouges. Medium-full. Complex, discreet. Not powerful but very, very intense, long and persistent. Fine.

REGION

France, Burgundy, Côte d'Or, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanee, Romanee-St. Vivant

Romanee-Saint-Vivant is a 23-acre Grand Cru vineyard just on the northern edge of the commune of Vosne-Romanee in the Cote de Nuits. The vineyard faces east, has a gentle incline and an elevation of 250 to 265 meters. The soil is clay and limestone. Principal producers of Romanee-Saint-Vivant are Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, with 13.23 acres; Leroy, with 2.48 acres; and Domaine de Corton-Grancey/Louis Latour, with 1.9 acres.

TYPE

Red Wine, Pinot Noir, Grand Cru

This red wine is relatively light and can pair with a wide variety of foods. The grape prefers cooler climates and the wine is most often associated with Burgundy, Champagne and the U.S. west coast. Regional differences make it nearly as fickle as it is flexible.

VINTAGE

1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-St. Vivant

Domaine Marey Monge farmed out the Romanee St. Vivant vineyard to Domaine De La Romanee-Conti starting in 1966. In 1988 Domaine De La Romanee-Conti bought Domaine Marey Monge.

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