Domaine de la Romanée-Conti - St. Vivant 2021 (750ml)

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Producer	Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Vintage	2021
Sku	123212
Size	750ml

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Decanter

Review Date: 02/2024

The Romanée-Saint-Vivant remains a significant step above the Echézeaux and Grands Echézeaux in this portfolio, with a deeper colour and a richer, riper black plum fruit character. The floral elements noticed in barrel are still pronounced, along with a brambly note from the whole cluster ferment and a bit more liquorice spice than it showed earlier in its evolution. The texture on the palate has smoothed out now; there is more depth and richness and less grippy tannins than noted in the fall after the vintage. Picked 27 – 28 September; 9,064 bottles produced.(CC)

Wine Advocate
Review Date: 01/2024

The 2021 Romanée-St-Vivant Grand Cru is intense and perfumed, soaring from the glass with scents of dark berries, rose petals, orange rind, aromatic bark and coniferous forest. Full-bodied, deep and unctuously textural, with a richly layered core of fruit, it's vibrant and penetrating, concluding with an intensely saline finish that marks it out as the closest relative in the range of the Romanée-Conti itself. The 2021 vintage has turned out brilliantly at the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, delivering wines of striking perfume and sensuality. Sadly, there just isn't very much of them to go around. The April frosts destroyed around half the crop in Vosne-Romanée and even more in the Côte de Beaune, indeed, fully 90% in Chardonnay. Harvest began on September 23, lasting until October 2, with Echézéaux and Corton-Charlemagne the last to be brought in. In the winery, Alex Bernier and his team retained all the bunches intact without destemming after sorting, and the wines matured in new barrels until bottling between December and May of 2023. The late harvest brought full physiological maturity without high alcoholic degrees, and the low yields express themselves in mid-palate unctuosity rather than any of the stigmata that can sometimes distinguish frost vintages, especially in Chardonnay. In style, they evoke the classics of yesteryear, but the evocation is surely a little deceptive, as these 2021s are already so suave and structurally polished that it's hard to resist them tod

Tim Atkin
Review Date: 01/2024

Marasca cherries, anise and tobacco spice pop from the glass. Always giving early on and frequently showing best this early on, the nose is as striking as ever on this cuvée. The palate feel is velvety and polished with gently curvaceous fruit and nimble acidity. Distractingly long on the finish, the mineral edge and whole bunch spice gently push aside the disarmingly youthful fruit.

Wine Spectator
Review Date: 01/2024

Surprisingly rich, yet with a firm backbone, the Romanée St.-Vivant reveals core flavors of rose and cherry, with a spicy element on the finish, intensity and finesse