Description
You can find DRC La Tâche 1996 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 1996
The 1996 La Tâche Grand Cru from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) represents a classic, high-tension vintage, known for its exceptional longevity and structural balance.
Furthermore, this vintage boasts exceptional concentration and power, benefiting from the high acidity typical of 1996.
Initially, it presents a profound nose of ripe red and black fruits (cassis, blackberries, candied cherries), raw meat, and Asian spices like soy and hoisin.
Subsequently, on the palate, it offers a full-bodied and intense experience with a thick, focused texture, spicy complexity, and earthy undertones.
Interestingly, it often reveals tertiary notes like autumn leaves, game, and black tea as it matures.
Overall, it has reached a beautiful drinking window, with tannins that have melted away to reveal tertiary notes of autumn leaves, game, and forest floor.
Moreover, as a “monopole” (a vineyard owned entirely by one estate), they produce extremely limited quantities.
In conclusion, DRC crafted 28,373 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 1996.
Would you like to compare this vintage to a more successful year for La Tâche, such as 1971 or 1978?
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