1959 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche
Pinot Noir
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By Neal Martin
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Fermented Grape Juice: Romanée-Conti 1953-2005 (Apr 2019), 4/1/2019, (See more on Vinous...)
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By John Gilman
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Jul/Aug 2012, Issue #40, The Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Report
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50 In Style, 7/24/2009
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By John Gilman
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Bonus Articles, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s La Tâche: Evolution of a Domaine (January 2001, updated June 2003)
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By Bill Nanson
(Romanée-Conti La Tâche) What a wine! It's actually a little deeper in colour than all the preceding wines - until you reach the 1990. The sweet nose has truffles and subtle rose petals, slowly expanding to provide a wonderful panorama of notes. Again beautiful texture and volume in the mouth, there's even still a bite of tannin in the finish. Once again a wine that builds and builds in the mouth - Bravo. On this showing as good as the 1978 even if the 78 has a little more aromatic intensity.
11/1/2005, (See more on Burgundy-Report...)
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Wine Definition
- Vintage1959
- TypeRed
- ProducerDomaine de la Romanée-Conti
- VarietyPinot Noir
- Designationn/a
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryFrance
- RegionBurgundy
- SubRegionCôte de Nuits
- AppellationLa Tâche Grand Cru
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12/7/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Perfectly mature. Somewhat rustic finish to this bottle though. 94-95
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11/16/2020 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points
While perhaps not the freshest bottle, quite enjoyable with modest evolution in the glass. 95-
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3/7/2020 - hprphf wrote:
La Paulee 2020 - Gala Dinner (Pier 60): Hard to place, definitely a good wine, maybe tried too late into the evening so not particularly powerful, after 5 hours of opening. NR
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6/14/2019 - nywine68 wrote: 95 Points
A 1959 Horizontal Across Champagne, Burgundy and Bordeaux (Le Cinq Restaurant, George Cinq Four Seasons, Paris): The wine took a while to open up and gathered weight with the food. Fully mature. A brooding earthy flavor profile with lots of complexity. A big dark wine.
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6/4/2017 - fclarity wrote: 97 Points
Tasted blind, this wine had a red center and light orange rims. The medium+ intensity nose wasn't showing much. It seemed more like an ancient CDP rather than a Burgundy. What is counter intuitive about wines like this is that even though they seem like they might be over the hill, they really need air to bring them back to life and resuscitate their flavor profile.
After a few hours, the medium+ intensity nose offered up black cherries, anise, brown spices, and candle wax. As it aired, the wine developed classic Rhubarb notes.
Again, this wine was not particularly special in the mouth for the first hour or two and it slowly came out of its shell. Toward the end, it had light, rounded tannin, solid acidity, excellent balance, and fantastic length. It had a slight roasted quality that suggested a warm year.
This wine moved up from a 92 point wine to 97 over the course of 5 hours in a decanter. Open it early and try not to drink it before it can reveal itself!
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