Domaine Sylvain Cathiard Romanee Saint Vivant 2015
The 2015 Domaine Cathiard Romanée-Saint-Vivant is a red Burgundy wine from the Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru in the Vosne-Romanée appellation. Made from 100% Pinot Noir, it comes from the Romanée-Saint-Vivant plot. The Wine Advocate awards it a score of 96-98/100 and a drinking window of 2022 to 2050. Critics describe a pure and reserved bouquet, silky tannins, a fresh structure, and a precise finish where the expression of the terroir remains in the foreground.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Cathiard
- Parcelle / Cru
- Romanée-Saint-Vivant
- Millésime
- 2015
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Cathiard
Domaine Sylvain Cathiard et Fils is a family-run estate based in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits. Run by Sébastien Cathiard, it cultivates around 12.5 hectares of vines, spread across the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits and several appellations in the Côte de Nuits, including Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Chambolle-Musigny and Gevrey-Chambertin. The estate is notably present in the Premier Crus of Vosne-Romanée and owns a small plot in the Grand Cru Romanée-Saint-Vivant.
- Owner
- Famille Cathiard
- Maître de chais
- Sébastien Cathiard
- Surface (ha)
- 12.50 ha
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s origins date back to the 1930s, when Alfred Cathiard, Sylvain Cathiard’s grandfather and a native of Savoie, settled in Burgundy. He worked first for the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and then for the Domaine Lamarche, before acquiring his own plots of land. His son, André Cathiard, subsequently expanded the estate and began bottling part of the production under the family name. Sylvain Cathiard joined his father, then set up his own business before taking over the family vineyards when André retired in 1995. Sébastien Cathiard joined the estate in 2006. He gradually took charge of winemaking and now runs the estate; he has also been chairman of Domaine Sylvain Cathiard et Fils since 2019. Under his leadership, the estate has expanded its cultivated area, notably with vineyards in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits and additional plots in the Côte de Nuits. The historic vineyard comprises plots in Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Chambolle-Musigny, including, notably, Vosne-Romanée Premiers Crus and a small plot of Romanée-Saint-Vivant. Wine-making takes place at the estate in Vosne-Romanée under the supervision of Sébastien Cathiard and his team.
Romanée-Saint-Vivant
Romanée-Saint-Vivant is a physically demarcated climat of Vosne-Romanée corresponding to a Grand Cru appellation reserved for red wines. Located on a gentle piedmont plateau overlooking the village, between 247 and 260 meters, it slopes gently eastward. Its shallow, clayey, carbonate-rich soils with high iron oxide content cover a well-draining limestone subsoil, with a conglomeratic formation in its eastern part.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name "Romanée de Saint-Vivant" is recorded in 1765. "Romanée" was borrowed from a small neighboring parcel, while "Saint-Vivant" recalls the Cluniac monastery that historically owned the vineyard.
- Exposure
- eastward
- Altitude
- 247–260 m
- Slope
- gentle slope on a slight plateau
- Soil
- Slightly developed, carbonated, and shallow soils, heavily clayey, rich in iron oxides; colluvium of scree, clays, and silts.
- Subsoil and geology
- Bajocian entroquitic limestones; to the east, a conglomerate of limestone blocks in a salmon-pink marly matrix.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.167000 ha
- Year the vineyard was acquired
- 1984
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner; plot previously farmed under a sharecropping arrangement (métayage) by the Cathiard family
- Indicative vine age
- Plot indicated as planted in 1919 by a recent professional source.
Histoire de la parcelle
The Cluniac monastery of Saint-Vivant owned a wine estate in Vosne as early as the Middle Ages, consisting of clos precisely listed in 1512. The current climat brings together the former Cloux des Neuf Journaux, des Quatre Journaux, and du Moytant. Confiscated as ecclesiastical property during the French Revolution, it was acquired by the Marey-Monge family, who kept it until 1898 before it was partially divided. Already placed in the top categories of the 1816, 1855, and 1860 classifications, Romanée-Saint-Vivant was recognized as an appellation d'origine contrôlée on September 11, 1936.
