2006 Domaine de Montille Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Malconsorts Christiane

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  11/4/2022 - DougLee wrote: 93 Points

  Dark translucent ruby. Nose of intense, sharp raspberry and nostril filling blue floral notes cut with tiny grains of iron and soulful iodine. Layers of piquant, aristocratically opulent red and dark berry fruit cut with ferric granules and fine earth on the palate. Brisk acidity and firm tannin. Long finish of stern red fruit and dense structure morphing into satisfying sweet black plum. A potentially monumental work in progress.

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  1/7/2022 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points

  Major development since my last bottle, wide-open aromatically from the pop of the cork instead of being packed in on itself, with those deep age-influenced flavors that's hard to describe in any specific terms beyond the word sauvage, and which initially suggest this might be almost in a state of something one might call maturity. The fruit is still pretty young and fresh though with a lot of zip from the stems, which give it a pleasant but prickly bit of verdancy. The structure is built more around that zing than the tannins, which are streamlined and silky and that fancy texture makes it hard to put down the glass for very long.

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  7/30/2018 - Sen4469 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  From magnum. Very refine wine. Beautiful nose and taste. Excellent. Enjoyed it a lot.

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  2/7/2018 - reichken wrote: flawed

  deep dark purplr color, dense, nose of blackish fruits or even cherries, the wine is big and vold and full, multi dimensional. it is showing almost only young fruit and seems a bit stiff or still coming together. long finish. needs time, big and young for the vintage

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  12/30/2017 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Not mature by any means but showing immense development since release ~8 years ago - it's a totally different wine now and has climbed to a whole other level. The funny thing is that the first sip was just terrible, with leathery scents and thin, stale fruit like over-the-hill Rioja. Amazing what a wine can do with a little time in the decanter to compose itself. The fruit freshened up like Benjamin Button, back to youthful juicy freshness, segueing from bright red berries at first to darker black fruits as time went on. Interestingly the prickly acidity that I noted years back is still here and actually gets sharper over the course of the night. The characteristic Vosne five-spice and gingerbread aromatics came out with some time as well. But the real distinguishing factor here is the shape and texture. It is simultaneously an absolute no-doubter as far as grand cru stature goes, while not being directly comparable to anything else in Vosne. It's not rugged or gritty as Malconsorts (or La Tache) so often is, instead it's refined and finely knit. But it's not a feminine wine either. It's broad-shouldered and cuts a figure that is, for lack of a better word, upright in the form it takes beneath the outward fluidity.

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