Domain Romanee Conti La Tache Grand Cru 1996 Bottle (75cl) FD
The 1996 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche is a red Burgundy wine made from 100% Pinot Noir from the La Tâche Grand Cru in Vosne-Romanée. The Wine Advocate awards it 94-97/100 with a drinking window from 2005 to 2020; Jancis Robinson rates it 19,5/20, to be enjoyed between 2011 and 2030. Critics describe a rich, structured wine with red and black fruit, notes of violet, game, and spice, supported by still-present tannins and a very long finish.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Fairly Damaged
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine de la Romanée Conti
- Parcelle / Cru
- La Tâche
- Millésime
- 1996
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine de la Romanée Conti
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is situated in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte-d’Or. Operated by the Société Civile du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, it comprises Grand Cru plots in the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune, including the monopoles of Romanée-Conti and La Tâche. It is owned in equal shares by the Gaudin de Villaine and Leroy-Roch families.
- Owner
- Familles Gaudin de Villaine et Leroy-Roch, réunies au sein de la Société Civile du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
- Maître de chais
- Alexandre Bernier
- Surface (ha)
- 30.74 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 80 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The history of the Romanée-Conti vineyard dates back to the Priory of Saint-Vivant, founded in the early 10th century, which owned land in Vosne during the Middle Ages. The future vineyard was known as the Cros des Cloux before being leased in perpetuity to Claude Cousin in 1584. It then passed to Jacques Venot in 1621, and subsequently to the de Croonembourg family; the name ‘Romanée’ first appears in historical records in 1651. In 1760, Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, acquired the Romanée, with which his name remains associated. The vineyard was confiscated during the French Revolution and subsequently sold at auction in 1794. Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet bought La Romanée-Conti in 1869 and merged it with other wine-growing estates he already owned. Following a series of family transfers, the Société Civile du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti was incorporated on 31 July 1942, when Henri Leroy acquired Jacques Chambon’s shares. The estate acquired La Tâche in 1933, vineyards in Montrachet in 1963, and became the tenant of Romanée-Saint-Vivant Marey-Monge in 1966, before the partners acquired it in 1984. It also took on a lease for 2.2746 hectares of Corton in 2008, then entered into a sharecropping arrangement for 2.9132 hectares of Corton-Charlemagne in 2018. Since 2021, the estate has been co-managed by Bertrand de Villaine and Perrine Fenal; Alexandre Bernier oversees the cellar and winemaking.
La Tâche
La Tâche is both a Grand Cru appellation and a physically delimited climat in Vosne-Romanée, consisting of the cadastral lieux-dits "La Tâche" and "Les Gaudichots ou la Tâche". Its plots form a narrow strip elongated in the direction of the slope, between 250 and 300 metres in altitude, with a gentle slope facing east. The soils, shallow, clayey, carbonated and rich in iron oxides, overlie a limestone subsoil ensuring efficient drainage. The site is a monopole owned by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Exposure
- East (levant)
- Altitude
- 250–300 m
- Slope
- Gentle, steeper in the upper section
- Soil
- Slightly evolved, carbonated, shallow and strongly clayey soils, with red clays and silts rich in iron oxides; brown calcareous soils and deeper rendzinas in the lower part.
- Subsoil and geology
- Crinoidal limestones and Bajocian marls in the lower part; soft, frost-susceptible Bathonian limestones in the upper part; Tertiary conglomerates with a salmon-pink marly matrix towards the east.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 6.062000 ha
- Year the vineyard was acquired
- 1933
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner and sole proprietor of the entirety of La Tâche
Histoire de la parcelle
The presence of vines in Vosne-Romanée is documented as early as the Middle Ages, notably within the possessions of the Abbey of Saint-Vivant. Known since the 17th century, the La Tâche lieu-dit appears to have remained undivided and is said to have known only three owners since the French Revolution. A part of the neighboring lieu-dit Les Gaudichots, whose wines were assimilated to those of La Tâche according to practices dating back to the 18th century, was added to the historical core. Cited as first class by André Jullien in 1816 and classified as "Tête de cuvée hors ligne" by Jules Lavalle in 1855, La Tâche was recognized as an appellation d'origine contrôlée on September 11, 1936.
