Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers DRC Échézeaux 1991.
If you have any queries, please contact us here.
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) Échézeaux attracts many wine enthusiasts as a highly sought-after Grand Cru red Burgundy from the historic Échézeaux vineyard.
This wine, made from Pinot Noir, stands out as one of the more powerful and robust offerings from the DRC portfolio.
However, it still maintains a sense of elegance.
The Echézeaux vineyard sits on the slopes above Grands Échezeaux, specifically between the villages of Vosne-Romanée and Vougeot.
The soil in the Échezeaux climats (plots) features a more diverse and complex composition than that of Grands Échezeaux.
It consists of Bajocian marls mixed with gravel and alluvial deposits, exhibiting varying altitudes and gradients.
DRC cultivates approximately 4.67 hectares of the Echézeaux vineyard, which spans a total area of about 37.69 hectares.
The majority of DRC’s holdings focus on a highly regarded plot called Les Poulaillaires.
Wine enthusiasts consider the wines from DRC’s Échezeaux plots exquisite examples of top-tier Burgundy.
They showcase bright red fruit, spice, and savoury characteristics.
DRC Échézeaux 1991
Yields across the entire Domain were exceptionally low in 1991 due to severe spring frosts and poor weather.
This makes bottles from this vintage highly sought-after.
Although Échézeaux is historically known as DRC’s fastest-maturing and lightest Grand Cru, the 1991 vintage yielded a surprisingly deep, backward, and dense wine.
The producers released 17,686 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Échezeaux in 1991.
A bottle naturally evaporates very slowly through the permeable cork, so we only expect that an old bottle will be less full than a current vintage of the same wine.
This rare bottle remains in appropriate condition for its age.
Finally, Arden Fine Wines in London offers the DRC Échézeaux 1991.
If you have any queries, please contact us here.
