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• bill00 wrote: 90 points

  June 22, 2021 - Fully mature with aromatics of cinnamon, spice and cola. The aromatics are nice but are fleeting and fade pretty quickly with air. Lacks the intensity of better vintages. Drink up.

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• hprphf wrote: 94 points

  May 15, 2019 - Acker 2019/05 (Zuma): 001435/13072. Finally one proper 82' in Burgundy. The acid is at its last window of peak but quite lovely and with depth. 94

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• Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 28, 2018 - An interesting bottle. On the nose this was classic DRC and Richebourg. Spices, Indian spices, vosne spice, red berries and a decent amount of olive tepenade. On the palate if blind I would have guessed Northern Rhone. Very Chave-like. Elegant and fragrant but more olive notes on the palate. Very good just wasnt expecting that from a Riche.

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• NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:

  May 19, 2016 - We lucked into this bottle, which was rejected from an auction consignment due to low fill and depressed cork. As we were drinking it in a hotel room without after it traveled across town, one can safely say it wasn’t given its best chance to show. And yet….The nose was captivating, with candied cola, sweet cherries, piney underbrush and truffles wafting out of the glass. Really, it was like cartoon where the smells drift along visibly – you could smell it from several feet away. After a bit, some subtle notes of Ben-Gay came out, which surprisingly didn’t interfere with the overall fruit and earth profile. At first sip, I knew we had a solid bottle on our hands. Broad-shouldered, but nimble and elegant, with all the right stuff: slightly macerated cherries, rocky soil, gingerbread, with a gentle acidity holding things together. The mouthfeel became more and more silky with time, though I’ll admit I couldn’t keep my hands off it and it was gone within 90 minutes. Not as delineated as perfect bottles, maybe, and slightly thinner through the mid-palate than I’d like, but those weren’t major detractors – I’d estimate it was operating at 80% of what it could be. Still, for a lesser vintage and a not perfect bottle, this was a treat. Sometimes I hate it that these wines really are that good.

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• Sleepy Dave wrote:

  December 24, 2010 - Alcohol :: NA
  From a Magnum and decanted for 6hrs. Dark brownish colour that boost vigorous, captivating, absolutely seductive aromas with its perfume floral, sweet cherry and fig tones that lay on a bed of Chinese herbs, truffle, forest floor. My very first mature DRC and great example of what power and grace is. The intense, lively palate show good harmonious and integration with alluring spices and earth and elegance flavour profile of fresh, ripe cherry fruits, high tone perfume floral with some tannins present along with dried tea leave dry and bitterness that expand the flavor spectrum with better depth and complexity. Utterly seductive and velvety smooth, gorgeous texture, considerably good scale for a weak vintage and the class and breed exude in this juice is simply stunning. The dried fig, fresh herb nuanced that kick in at the very end leads to the spicy, strong, detail finish with tons of spices that linger. Stunning. No doubt this is the WOTN. Buy - I wish I could afford.....

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1982
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Richebourg Grand Cru

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