Domaine de la Romanée Conti Romanée-St-Vivant 2002

Fiddle Dee dee, fiddle dee dum – I’m in the mood for something’ yum!

Really great wines, and I mean really really great wines, are a rare commodity these days. So when something like a DRC comes along – yes folks a Domaine-de-la-Romanée Conti – you don’t just sip it, you hog it so no one else gets a shot at it!

With this I must now introduce you to the Domaine-de-la-Romanée Conti Romanée-St-Vivant 2002 – you can almost hear the angels sing can’t you?

Brilliant medium to deep ruby colour. Slightly muted cherry-berry nose, with tea rose notes with a massive toffee coming through after about two hours. Deep-set fruit, great texture and fruit density, black cherry, tart cranberry and spice, and like the toffee, bay leaf coming through on the palate the longer the wine has in the glass. Excellent balance and length and just bloody excellent!

Drink with pure indulgence – rare wagyu
Drink till 2032
99.5
Quality cork 13%v/v US$650


And like the Bastille Day post of 2009, this one will also be in French for you Francophiles


Fiddle Dee dee, diddle acte um – j'ai envie de quelque chose Yum !

Vraiment de grands vins et je signifie vraiment très grands vins, sont un rare de nos jours. Donc lorsque quelque chose comme un RDC vient – Oui gens un Conti Domaine-de-la-romaine – vous n'est pas seulement sip il, vous il ne monopolise donc aucun un sinon obtient un tir à elle !

Avec cela je dois maintenant vous présenter le Domaine-de-la-Romanée Chanter Romanée Conti-St - Vivant 2002 – vous pouvez presque hare les anges Impossible de vous ?

Support de brillant de couleur rubis profond. Légèrement en sourdine. Cherry-fruits nez, avec des notes tea roses avec un caramel massive entrant grâce après environ deux heures. Deep-Set de fruits, de texture grand et de densité de fruits, noire Cherry, tart canneberge et épices et comme la feuille de caramel, baie entrant grâce sur le Palais plu le vin a dans le verre. Excellent équilibre et longueur et juste sanglantes excellent !

Boire avec pure indulgence – rare wagyu
Boire 2032
99,5
Liège de qualité 13%v/v 650 $ US

Bastille Day and Domaine-de-la-Romanee Conti 2005 La Tache

Bastille Day. The day when every non French person wants to be French and go, ‘haw haw haw’ in a French accent.; we’ve all done it and we will do it again.

To mark this day, I will blog about what I think is France's, and most certainly the worlds greatest wine house, and what has been my wine highlight for the last 12 months, the 2005 Domaine-de-la-Romanee Conti La Tache. That’s right, you read it correct. What a wine I tell ya!!

I got to taste this last year when a group came in to the restaurant with BYO; bloody BYO I thought. Then they showed me the wines. The entire DRC 2005 – all of them!! Richebourg, Romanee St. Vivant, Romanee Conti, Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux and the Montrachet. Along with these were also Lamy-Piot Montrachet, Etienne Sauzet Le Montrachet and Bourchard et Fels Montrachet. Bloody Hell!!

As the Sommelier at The Point, I was charged with opening all of these wines to taste and test; this was a definite perk of the job. It was a blind taste so then I had to wrap all the bottles in foil and carefully, very carefully, pour the wines in the appropriate glassware.

At the end of the evening, the group graciously gave me a more than fair sample of each wine where they asked my opinion of each wine. It was a unanimous vote that the DRC Montrachet was the pick of the night – sexy stuff I tell ya! With this done, some of the guests made way with what was left. What happened next still puts a smile on my face. The host said that I could take home what was left – fair dinkum.

That night I took home about a third of a bottle of the La Tache, a quarter of the RSV, a couple of mouthfuls of Romanee Conti, a third of Lamy-Piot and a third of the Etienne Sauzet; that’s a fair wet dream in anyone’s language. The thing was that some of the wine had already been poured in to a glass for me, with the bottles being thrown way by the other staff. All I could do was decant what was left in to whatever I could find; this took all of my MacGyver skills I had.

They were all falafalling brilliant!!! But alas, they did not last too long.

Today I am in Perth with my family, and alas, there will be no La Tache, but I am sure there will be something decent from Baron’s on Beaufort Street, but back to the wine.


There is only one word to do the nose true justice and that is mucho fantastico as the aromatic breadth here is simply stunning with red and black cherry, cassis, plum and subtle earth notes replete with the same Asian spice array of aromas as the RSV displays but here the floral aspect, particularly rose petal, is much more pronounced. After 2 hours it was even more amazing; super ripe aromas of cherry, currant, tobacco and smoky, nutty oak, with traces of vanilla and sweet butter.

On the palate, a vivid freshness of fruit, pungency of spice and flowers, and melting away of what in point of analytical fact are abundant tannins, all engender an almost white wine dynamic of fruit-mineral call-and-response and clear, incisive penetration of flavours to every recess of the mouth. Finishes with wonderfully broad, ripe tannins.

To quote the great Sammy Hagar of Van Halen, ‘That’s what dreams are made of....’ There is nothing else to say but bisou bosou.

Drink with anything you bloody well like
Drink till it finished
20/20!!!!!