Medium-full weight. Very lovely, almost Musigny-like fruit here. Complex, concentrated and intense. Marvelous harmony. Very, very long and multi-dimensional. This is very special.

An extraordinary as well as extraordinarily intense aromatic display greets you from the glass of 2006 Romanee-Conti. Rose petals, griotte cherries, almond extract, mint, and cinnamon once again put me in mind of archetypal pinot with a soupcon of Gewurztraminer. The remarkable perfume and spice continue inner-mouth, allied to a silken textural refinement (as if the tannins were self-dissolving); to pure, fresh, but not at all superficially sweet cherry and raspberry essence; and to deep, marrowy meatiness and hints of truffle and forest floor. This pivots at midpoint, as it were – though far more subtly than does its Richebourg sibling – from perfume and fruit to almost sinister animal and mineral suggestions. The finish here is at once positively ethereal and deeply, darkly mysterious, like lingering harmony at the extremes of audibility. I suspect it will also outlive the other wines from this estate and vintage.

Reviewer Name: David Schildknecht

Review Date: 22nd December 2009

More pink than garnet and especially bright, even glossy. Aromas are both sweetly fruited and just a little savoury. A mildly meaty and darker character to the fruit. Overlaid on all that a fine oaky spice. Fine and tight like a pressed suit. Just a little peppery. Already fragrant and juicy even though there is a real depth of unopened fruit and savour. Fine and deceptively firm. Lost count of the Caudalies (the units used by some in Burgundy to measure length). (JH)

Charming and precocious from barrel, this is now a little shy at first, but then the rose aroma emerges. Very elegant and refined, yet firm, teasingly hinting at the floral, wild strawberry and cherry notes that will come to the fore in time.

(445) Good medium-deep red. Wonderfully pure, penetrating aromas of cassis, black raspberry, minerals and spices. Denser and more spherical than La Tache, offering a compelling combination of raspberry and mineral high notes and lower earth tones. Wonderfully tactile, building finish saturates the taste buds with flavor.

(445) Good medium-deep red. Wonderfully pure, penetrating aromas of cassis, black raspberry, minerals and spices. Denser and more spherical than La Tache, offering a compelling combination of raspberry and mineral high notes and lower earth tones. Wonderfully tactile, building finish saturates the taste buds with flavor.

Reviewer Name: Stephen Tanzer

Review Date: 1st March 2009

Saturated deep red-ruby. Subdued but pristine aromas of raspberry and minerals. Densely packed and sappy, with a dusty impression of extract. But less sweet on the back than La Tache. From another barrel: Less oaky and more minerally. Can't match the thickness or structure of the '05 but this boasts superb aromatic purity and cut and possesses plenty of volume without any heaviness. The perfumed flavors of red fruits, spices, minerals and flowers fill the retronasal passage on the back end.

Reviewer Name: Stephen Tanzer

Review Date: 4th December 2014