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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Aubert de Villaine believes the '96s are very much like the '66s made by this domain. In '66, he explains, yields were even higher, but the fruit showed strong acidity and good sugar levels and displayed explosive fruit in the barrel. The '66s "didn't like" the bottling, and for the next ten years they were "as closed as stones"; similarly, says de Villaine, the '96s are in the process of shutting down in bottle. "There are two things I've learned through the years," notes de Villaine: "First, it is a mistake to try to extract through enological means. And, second, when they are ripe enough it good to keep the stems. If you put something a little green into the bottle, it enables the wine to age more gracefully; the wine matures like a flower." De Villaine describes the acid levels of '97 as lower than those of '96 but adequate. Still, the wines will be bottled quite early (the Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux were already in bottle at the end of January), barrel by barrel to avoid having to do a second aeration.

From 1997 and 1996 Red Burgundies (Mar 1999) by Stephen Tanzer

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