La Tache - Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1988

The evocation of the name Romanée-Conti is enough to thrill any wine lover around the world. In 1760, Prince Louis-François de Bourbon-Conti bought a plot in Vosne-Romanée, planted by the priors of Saint-Vivant, before dying in 1776. This was confiscated during the revolution and then sold to the highest bidder in 1794 It was then that the 1.8-hectare plot was renamed Romanée-Conti. It will give its name to the most prestigious of Burgundy estates.
In 1879, Jacques-Marie Duvault Blochet bought this property and today it is Henry-Frédéric Roch, Lalou Bize-Leroy and his director Aubert de Villaine who own it. The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) owns 25 hectares of vines in Vosne, mainly on the grand crus of the town: La Tâche, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Richebourg, Echézeaux, Grands-Echézeaux and of course Romanée-Conti. On the Côte de Beaune, the estate recently acquired the farming of three plots in Corton in addition to its mythical vines of Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet (confidential production not marketed).
Although Romanée-Conti is at the heart of everyone's attention, the other grands crus of the estate are beyond reproach by the work carried out both in the vineyard (biodynamic management) and in the winery, (where the vinification of whole harvests is practiced). Yields are extremely low and some wines such as Montrachet are not vintaged every year due to low quantities (this was the case in 1992 or 2016). Its price is obviously at the height of the myth.