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Auction: SFW03 - An Evening of Exceptional Wines
Lot: 46

BURGUNDY from a Private Cellar

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Assorted Grand Echézeaux vintage 1983, 1992 and 1995
Grand Cru, Côtes de Nuits

Lying in a temperature-controlled cellar duty paid in Singapore
3 bottles (1 bottle each vintage)

Tasting Notes: "This wine (vintage 1995, 92/100 points Pierre Rovani, The Wine Advocate #118, Aug. 1998) is austere, masculine, backward and a dense. It offers superb black fruit flavors and a firm tannic backbone. Drink it between 2003 and 2012+."
"The Grands Echézeaux is velvety and forward, and given its quality, a good value for a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wine."

The 1983 vintage (90/100 points Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate Burgundy Book Jan. 90) for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti was a very tough year. First there was hail, then the advent of rot in August thanks to the tropical heat and humidity. When the harvest occurred, the domaine instructed its pickers to pick the grapes, not the grape bunches, by hand and to discard all of the rotten grapes. The results are splendidly concentrated, rich wines, but wines that are extremely expensive and need at least a decade of cellaring."

Sold for
SG$2,500