2006 Montrachet Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Vosne Romanée

Burgundy

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Chardonnay

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This fabulous charity dinner, held to benefit children’s oncology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, featured a breathtaking range of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s Montrachet spanning 21 vintages back to 1978. It was a truly magical night of wine, food and conversation, all for a great cause.

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All too often, white wines are relegated to second-tier status, a sort of warm up for the reds that inevitably follow during most meals. I have long believed that white wines deserve a little more respect than that. Over the years, many of the most riveting experiences I have had have been with aged white wines. The objective of this tasting was to take a look at two of Burgundy’s benchmark whites across a number of vintages in order to gain a better understanding of how the style of each wine was expressed in each year.

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This wine was tasted following a vertical of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's Montrachet spanning 21 vintages from 1982 to 2012.

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Aubert de Villaine describes 2007 as an ethereal vintage, and thus probably not for people who look for fleshiness in their Burgundies. He is confident that what he describes as "the early vegetal aspect" shown by the 2007s will evolve into fascinating perfume with 15 years of bottle aging. Potential alcohols here were in the 12.5% range when the domain harvested during the first week of September, and the wines were chaptalized less than a half degree simply to prolong the fermentations. Vinification was done with about 50% to 60% of the stems, or a bit less than usual. Villaine considers the DRC 2006s to be more classic wines. "They're ethereal and they have strong soil tones, and there's plenty of flesh too," he said.

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