1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands-Echezeaux

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 94.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Burgnick's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/31/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Slow oxed for 4 hours before serving. The nose had that regalness showing nutmeg, cherry cola, spice, stems, and darkish red fruit. Very dense and concentrated. It has been the most expressive DRC GE I had but certainly not fully swinging its full potential. Nevertheless, it has entered the early drinking window with more upside potential.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Burgnick's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/8/2023 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Slow oxed for 8 hours before serving. Dark and brooding. Clearly had plenty of substance on the palate. Dark fruit driven with mineral, spice and earth undertone. Like other tasters comment, more Richebourg than GE.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Alex G.'s profile
  • Report Issue

  1/28/2022 - Alex G. Likes this wine:

  Domaine Romanee Conti Lunch (Phoenix, AZ USA): This flight was a trio of 99 GE, Richebourg, and RSV served blind. Our experienced group of Burgundy drinkers was totally humiliated, we almost did worse than if we had guessed randomly. Going to chalk this up to the fact that the 99 vintage is still so young and tightly wound that the vineyard distinctions haven't yet come to the fore. Then again, maybe the staff messed up and didn't keep the wines in the proper order during the blind tasting - a discussion we had at the table we were so shocked. In any case, it's clear 99 will be a great vintage, but these probably shouldn't be opened for another decade. Very grateful to have been able to try these special wines, alas we only get a glimpse at this early stage.
  
  My guess for this was Richebourg. It was the deepest flavor, the darkest color, and the most tightly packed of the flight. Not what one would expect of GE. The aromatics were tremendous, but the palate barely budged in the glass with air.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View clayfu's profile
  • Report Issue

  9/6/2021 - clayfu wrote:

  You a young beast but you a big beast. 1999 DRC Grands Echezeaux is pretty much what you'd expected from a 1999 GE - it is a monster with plenty left in the tank. I love the in your face aggressiveness that GE seems to pull no matter the vintage, but there seems to be so much more backing up that attack than usual in the 1999. It still has plenty of material in reserve and built like a mack truck. This wine will outlive me but still provide pleasure as it climbs to the top.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View The Vines That Bind's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/11/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points

  Nose is floral and spicy. Showy but also a little roasted / tomato fruit character. I expected a more youthful, punchy, stemmy, and black cherry / oaky showing from ‘99. A little surprised and disappointed by how seemingly muddled this showed, although short of stewed. Great looking bottle, not sure what the issue was here, should’ve been fresher, brighter, more powerful in my opinion. Very good with plenty of redeeming and enjoyable characteristics, and still had some DRC style, but I’d say a maybe a bit of a letdown given the stellar vintage and how much I like Grands Echezeaux. Has lovely detailed black teas and spices that I associate with the darker and cloudy style at Meo Camuzet.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 45 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.