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1996 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche Grand Cru

1996 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche Grand Cru

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95JG
95VN
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Wine Advocate

Reviewed August 1998
This blockbuster wine possesses a profound nose. It exhibits awesomely ripe red and black fruits, raw meat, and Asian spices, all of which are encased in sweet toasty oak. This full-bodied, wide, thick, focused, harmonious, and intense wine releases amazingly powerful layers of candied black cherries and blackberries. It is structured, totally precise, pure, and possesses an exceptionally long finish loaded with abundant sweet tannins. It will require patience. (PR)
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Professional Reviews

96

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 06/2006
Deep color. Very pure fruit confit aromas of cassis and blackberry. A rich La Tâche, with a combination of ripeness and high acidity. It's up front in its appeal today, with a great nose and tight finish. (BS)

95

Burghound

Review Date: 06/2019
Fantastically pure with the classic spice box, hoisin and soy nose followed by big, rich, very structured flavors that display notes of earth, leather and tea. The tannins are big, ripe and are completely buffered by the sap with length that is simply phenomenal. This remains completely primary in character and seems not to have budged at all since it was bottled. A fine, if not genuinely great, vintage for La Tâche that is softer in the mouth than the '96 Grands Ech and this should improve for another decade and last for 50 years. Very classy juice.

95

John Gilman

Review Date: 10/2018
The 1996 La Tâche is at about the same stage of evolution as the DRC Richebourg, but more expressive at the same time and it is easier to see exactly the shape of things to come with this superb wine. The bouquet is beautiful, albeit still fairly youthful, as it offers up scents of cherries, plums, beetroot, Vosne spices, raw cocoa, a lovely base of soil and plenty of spicy new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with lovely focus and balance, ripe, well-integrated tannins, tangy acids and excellent grip on the very, very long, vibrant and promising finish. I would love to circle back to this beautiful wine in a decade and catch it in full bloom! 95+

Notes

98 points, Neal Martin's Wine Journal: "A deep ruby colour with very little ageing. There is a tangible stalkiness on the nose that seems to dissipate with a few swirls of the glass. The nose is reticent at first, dark cherries, blackberry leaf, a touch of dried blood and cooked meats with blueberries and violets evolving after twenty minutes in the glass. The palate has beautiful poise, firm tannins and moving towards secondary flavours: sour cherry, dried orange peel, and a ferrous finish. I feel this La Tache is undergoing its adolescence, an “awkwardness” that will resolve itself five or six years hence. “A moody git” are the last three words I scribbled as I vainly tried to extract it out of its sulk, but I give up. Just cellar it because it will deliver! Tasted February 2008."

Details

TypeRed Wine
VarietalPinot Noir
OriginVosne Romanee, Burgundy, France
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU140233