Description
You can find DRC this DRC La Tâche 1997 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 1997
The 1997 La Tâche from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is a Grand Cru Pinot Noir known for being surprisingly opulent and approachable, despite originating from a year that posed significant climatic challenges in Burgundy.
It has a garnet core, often showing a deep brick or mahogany rim due to its maturity.
The nose has an intense bouquet of black cherries, wild raspberries, and blackberries, with complex secondary notes of Asian spices, liquorice, minerals, and iodine.
On the palate, it is a velvet-textured and full-bodied wine.
Although it possesses a firm tannic structure, it is noted for its ripeness and smooth tannins that make it more accessible than many other younger DRC vintages.
Moreover, as a “monopole” (a vineyard owned entirely by one estate), they produce extremely limited quantities.
In conclusion, DRC crafted 15,266 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 1997.
Would you like to compare this vintage to a more successful year for La Tâche, such as 1971 or 1978?
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