2015 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Richebourg Grand Cru 1x750ml

Vinous 96+

Healthy dark red. Very ripe, highly complex aromas and flavors of raspberry, smoky soil tones, dried flowers and musky mocha and coffee. At once utterly seamless and youthfully imploded in the middle palate, this wine initially impressed for its energy and thrust, then gained in pliancy and sweetness with time in the glass. Still, this is a more masculine style than the RSV, finishing backward and penetrating, with its powerful tannins currently cutting off the fruit. A bit uncompromising in the early going but has the stuffing to give it great potential for a glorious and extended evolution in bottle. [Stephen Tanzer, 01/02/2018]

Anticipated maturity: 2030-2047

Robert Parker 96

The 2015 Richebourg Grand Cru was picked on 8 and 9 September at 24 hectoliters per hectare. It took its time to open up despite rigorous coaxing – more so than the Romanée Saint Vivant (although it is usually thus). Eventually it offers a very precise but broody nose, slightly darker fruit than the Romanée Saint Vivant: blackberry, cranberry leaf, a hint of damp moss on a late October morning. The palate has stunning balance and is underpinned by filigree tannin. There appears to be slightly more red fruit than the nose suggests and it segues into a structured and imperious, conspicuously saline finish that lingers for more than a minute in the mouth. This is a regal Richebourg. [09/28/2017]

Anticipated maturity: 2025-2060