1996 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 96.1 points

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  4/29/2021 - AValdes Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Domaine de la Romanee conti 2018 Tasting and Dinner; 4/29/2021-4/30/2021 (Le Bernardin): In a way, I don't know how to rate this wine. For me, RC is usually subtle and contemplative. Our host, when discussing the food pairing, confessed his struggles ever pairing this wine appropriately and I think there is something to that. So, unlike all the other wines I tasted along side this one, I am not doing a relative comparison.
  
  This wine is beautiful and long. It carries a lot with ease and leaves you beguiled. I know 96 is a worrisome vintage, but I think this wine is wonderfully expressive and inviting. It does not have any of the reticent character often associated with 96.

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  4/22/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points

  Sous bois, touch of savoriness aromatically. Rich, deep palate but perhaps not the purest. (1915/6101)

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  10/31/2020 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 97 Points

  1996 DRC Romanee Conti- Crazy aromatics that only gets deeper and wilder with coffee beans, perfume, smoke, red currant, ginger flowers and potpourri. Palate is silky and elegant with sweet red fruit. The magic of RC is the intensity curve that develops in the glass. A wine that keeps going on the upswing where the ultimate peak lies upon your wild imagination.

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  10/15/2020 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points

  Some inconsistency compared to prior bottle. Lacked similarly extreme energy on nose and delineation on the palate. From same ex-domaine case. (5435/6101)

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  10/15/2020 - fcxj wrote: 98 Points

  Insane bottle that blew 2005 Tache away. Delicate, lively, sweet floral aromatics, incredibly intoxicating. Utterly harmonious palate. (5430/6101)

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