2015 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, La Tache Grand Cru 1x750ml

Vinous 98

Bright, dark red. Ineffable nose and palate combine note of flowers, anisette and Asian spices with raspberry and pungent crushed-stone minerality. Wonderfully plush and penetrating, conveying uncanny inner-mouth clarity and lift and impressive reserve to its sappy core of fruit. Finishes with a strong spine of tannins but the wine’s dark raspberry, espresso and mineral flavors continue to build after the tannins disappear on the palate. Like all of the 2015 grand crus at this address, this wine conveys a powerful impression of dry extract. [Stephen Tanzer, 01/02/2018]

Anticipated maturity: 2029-2050

Robert Parker 98

“The 2015 La Tâche Grand Cru is a young classic, soaring from the glass with an exotic and stunningly complex bouquet of dark berries, plums, hoisin, smoked duck, dark chocolate, licorice and Chinese five spice, with just a touch of rose hip on the upper register. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, multidimensional and authoritative, with more mid-palate depth than the Richebourg, its attack more textural and layered. The tannins here are fine grained but firm-swathed in an ample core of plummy, almost savory fruit-and the finish is long and scintillating. Cropped at 25 hectoliters per hectare and harvested September 7 and 8.” [William Kelley, 02/28/2018]

Anticipated maturity: 2025-2050