Domain Romanee Conti Romanee Conti Grand Cru 1996 Bottle (75cl) SD
The 1996 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti Grand Cru is a red Burgundy wine from the Romanée-Conti parcel in Vosne-Romanée. Produced by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, it is crafted from 100% Pinot Noir and classified as a Burgundy Grand Cru. The Wine Advocate awards it a score of 96-98/100, describing a dense and concentrated wine that remains elegant and precise, featuring notes of cherry, dark berries, plum, earth, minerality, spice, and spiced oak.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Slightly 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
- Romanée-Conti
- 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.
Romanée-Conti
Romanée-Conti is both a Grand Cru appellation and a physically delimited climat in Vosne-Romanée, within the Côte de Nuits. This 1.81-hectare monopole exclusively produces red wine made primarily from Pinot Noir. The climat rests on approximately 60 cm of brown limestone soils with a high clay content, sitting on a bedrock of hard Premeaux limestone of Jurassic origin.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The climat, formerly named "La Romanée", took the addition "Conti" after its acquisition in 1760 by Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti.
- Soil
- Brown limestone soils with high clay content, approximately 60 cm thick.
- Subsoil and geology
- Hard Premeaux limestone of Jurassic origin.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 1.814000 ha
- Year the vineyard was acquired
- 1869
- Vineyard holding status
- Sole owner and operator in monopoly
- Indicative vine age
- Vineyard entirely replanted in 1947 after pulling up the old vines following the 1945 harvest.
Histoire de la parcelle
The terroir is part of the ancient vineyard developed by the monks of Saint-Vivant de Vergy. Louis-François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, acquired La Romanée in 1760 and reserved its wine exclusively for his table; after the Revolution, the vineyard was sold as national property and the name Romanée-Conti became established. Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet acquired it in 1869. Successoral undivided estates led in 1944 to the creation of the Société Civile du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
