Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers this DRC Grands Échézeaux 1977.
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The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) produces the highly sought-after Grand Cru red Burgundy, Grands Échézeaux.
The DRC Grands Échézeaux vineyard is a 3.53-hectare parcel.
You can expect typical aromas of red and black fruits, such as cherries and raspberries, along with floral notes, earth, and spices.
As the wine ages, it evolves into more complex notes of musk, leather, fur, and mushroom.
The wine presents a harmonious balance of fruit, acidity, and refined tannins.
Wines from Grands Échézeaux typically command a higher price and exhibit greater complexity and structure.
In comparison to DRC’s Échezeaux cuvée, the wine from DRC Grands Échézeaux generally presents more complexity and harmony.
DRC Grands Échézeaux showcases extraordinary ageing potential, requiring you to wait at least four to five years.
DRC Grands Échézeaux 1977
The 1977 growing season in Burgundy plagued the region with a catastrophic mix of severe spring frost, a bitterly cold and rainy summer, and extensive rot during harvest.
Experts widely consider it one of the weakest, thinnest, and most difficult vintages of the late 20th century.
Although almost all other 1977 red Burgundies collapsed decades ago, DRC’s drastic, painstaking grape sorting allowed them to coax a delicate, surprisingly aromatic wine out of a bleak year.
Given its age and its condition, this bottle offers primarily historic interest and significance as a 50-year old vintage wine.
Overall, DRC created 18,540 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux in 1977.
