Description
You can find DRC La Tâche 1995 from award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
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The La Tâche Grand Cru vineyard produces La Tâche from Pinot Noir grapes.
Wine enthusiasts widely praise this red wine for its elegance, complexity, and age-worthiness.
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) owns the monopole vineyard.
Indeed, wine lovers know La Tâche for its complex and slow-developing flavour profile.
It often requires a decade or more to fully integrate.
Interestingly, the varied soil composition of the vineyard ranges from more stony, limestone-heavy upper slopes to clay-rich lower slopes.
This enables DRC to create a consistent, complex wine.
Moreover, DRC’s traditional, perfectionist winemaking, including late harvesting for optimal ripeness and very low yields, contributes to the wine’s quality.
DRC La Tâche 1995
The 1995 La Tâche vintage is opulent and aromatic, balancing richness with savoury complexity.
It is an excellent vintage that has gained significant power and density as it has aged.
|initially, the nose has aromas of mushroom, damp leaves, dried flowers, truffles, and spice.
Then, on the palate, there are extraordinary layers of dark fruits, wet earth, and compact minerals.
Overall, high acidity and supple tannins provide a seamless finish.
Experts like Allen Meadows have noted that stylistically, the ’95 La Tâche shares elements with the prestigious ’96 and ’97 vintages:
“Stylistically, this borrows elements from both the ’97 and the ’96 as it combines moderate floral notes with most of the spice, soy and hoisin of the ’96 plus the densest flavors of any vintage to this point… This too has the potential to be very long lived and even at 13 years of age, it’s clear that it still has another 7 to 10 years to go before it reaches its full potential. Multiple notes with consistent results.”
DRC crafted 21,118 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 1995.
Would you like to compare this vintage to a more successful year for La Tâche, such as 1971 or 1978?
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