Description
Arden Fine Wines in London offers this DRC Grands Échézeaux 1984.
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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 1984
The 1984 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) Grands Échézeaux Grand Cru is an exceedingly rare, fully mature Burgundy Pinot Noir.
It comes from one of the coldest and most difficult vintages in modern Burgundian history.
The 1984 growing season was plagued by an exceptionally cold, wet spring, with delayed flowering.
This as followed by a sunless summer, topped off by the remnants of Hurricane Hortense in September.
The vintage was widely panned for producing green, aggressively acidic, and thin wines.
However, DRC’s drastic crop thinning and obsessive sorting at the winery meant they produced only a tiny fraction of their usual (already small) output.
Against all odds, this “off-vintage” DRC Grands Échézeaux 1984 has evolved into a delicate, ethereal, and beautifully aromatic treasure that showcases the true strength of the estate.
Overall, DRC created 9,120 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux in 1984.
As a result, this vintage is very scarce now.
Are you looking to acquire a bottle for a collection or a gift, or do you need a comparison with other DRC vintages?
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