Winery - Romanée-Conti
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
A bottle of this legendary wine was served from Ron Pohl’s cellar at the Fourth Annual Bordeaux versus Burgundy dinner; incredible nose to open, wafting floral scents, violets and lavender, black cherries, layered and complex but at the same time elegant and exotic, we commented that if there was a way to capture the incredible aromas of this wine in a perfume, we could all be wealthy; very sophisticated flavors; complex but characterized by a softness and sweetness in the front of the mouth; sweet and silky with superb balance; lots of black cherry flavors with various nuances of fruit and earth along the edges; the only negative of this wine is that it has to be drunk soon as tinges of volatile acidity began to emerge after it had sat in the glass for a while; that does not take away any of this wine’s greatness. (20/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Very sweet nose with lots of black fruits, but there are many secondary aromas here, most notably rubber and petrol, dry wood; beautifully ripe and sweet in the mouth with a perfumed intensity of flavor that is seductive; there is power here, but it is wrapped in layers of sweetness that can make the wine seem deceptively forward; the truth lies deeper in the wine, after a search of the nooks and crannies of flavor that are lurking about; quite a wonderful finish with black cherry and blackberry flourishes. (19/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
There may be skeptics out there, but this wine is tough to top; opens with a surge of sweet intense aromas that have black cherries, plums, and assorted fruits, mixing with a tantalizing hint of bacon fat, black pepper and mixed spices, confectioner’s sugar, smoke, deep and complex; laser sharp on the palate; this defines the presence of fruit with such precision that the black cherries are visible each separate from the others; very smooth and rich on the entry; sophisticated and complex; silky with feminine characteristics but no shrinking violet here; long complex finish that stays in the mouth for what seems an eternity; bring it on. (20/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
The first thing that one notices about a Romanée Conti is that it exudes power and grace; sweet aromas of black cherries are the opening act, followed by elements of black pepper and freshly-turned earth, cassis, and then more of a perfumed and floral definition; very intense in the mouth, the wine provides layers of flavor right from the start; black cherries are the dominant flavor, but there are other flavors in the background that evoke caramel, toffee, and truffles; perfect pitch on this wine; lots of depth; very long finish, with intense flavors right to the fade out after a minute or so. (19/20)
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