Community Tasting Note

clayfu wrote:

Monday, May 10, 2021 - first time was a terribly heat damaged 2001 from god knows where, to say it was disappointing would be the understatement of the year. This time, a 1980 DRC Romanee Conti. The original purchaser's cellar was less than 20 miles away from the restaurant and was stored perfectly since release. I kept my expectations low as to tamper expectations.

Some wines are pretty tough to put into words - I'm usually taking notes on my phone as I'm tasting through wine and I update it as the wine changes through the night, but with this wine the note just kept getting longer and longer as the superlatives grew.

Decanted for sediment - decanted back into the bottle 15 minutes or so later then popped again around 1.5 hours later.

The wine is complete to say the least, over three hours it elevated and gained more and more as subtle nuisance layered itself in and built onto the base.

The nose is the very essense of sous bois perfection with baked spice, cedar, the sweetest resolved cherry - all subtle and floating in an ethereal presense that haunts YOUR VERY SOUL. As you smell the wine, the emotion empties out from you.

On the palate - simply, it is the most perfect balance of pure wild strawberry fruit and sweet earth that you get from aged burgundy, it is the dictionary picture of that combo that we seek from aged burgundy. It's interlaced with supple acidity that carries the flavor profile all through your mouth. There was one point I was asked what I thought about the wine but I couldn't respond as the wine had so completely saturated my tastebuds that I kept swallowing all the saliva that was being generated by the flavor explosions of fruit, black tea leaves, sweet earth - except it all just felt so "weightless" and seamless.

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