Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, La Tache Grand Cru Monopole, Cote de Nuits, Burgundy, France, 2020

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Purchased from Wilson Daniels  - Perfect condition 

Overview of the Wine
Considered the pinnacle of Burgundy, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti produces some of the world’s most revered wines from its tiny vineyards in Vosne-Romanee. Two of the Domaine's seven Grand Cru vineyards - La Romanée-Conti and La Tache - are monopoles (appellations entirely owned by the Domaine) and unarguably the greatest vineyards in Burgundy. Richebourg, Romanee-St.-Vivant, Grands-Echezeaux, Echezeaux, and Montrachet (in Chassagne) are also Grand Cru vineyards, yielding sublime wines that are among the most highly-sought, seductive and rarest in the world.

Winemaker
Alexandre Bernier

Grape / Blend
Pinot Noir

Origin
Côte de Nuits, France

Tasting Notes
The other Grand Cru Monopole owned by the Domaine, it is known for its opulence, La Tâche offers a vivid, intoxicating bouquet of violets, exotic spices, and black fruit. On the palate, it combines power with grace, presenting a velvety texture and a harmonious blend of ripe fruit and spicy notes. This wine is distinctive for its aromatic intensity and a richness that is both accessible and complex. Surface area: 6.06 hectares.

99 Points - Burghound
Note: a monopole of 6.06 ha Much like the Romanée St. Vivant, here the equally reserved nose is overtly floral in character with a beautifully layered array of hoisin, soy, clove, anise, black cherry coulis, sandalwood and exotic jasmine and pekoe tea scents. Once again, the texture of the rich and impressively concentrated broad-shouldered flavors is super-sleek, and they too exude an almost pungent minerality on the clean, bright and exceptionally persistent finale where the only nit is a touch of backend warmth. Despite being very firmly structured, the mid-palate density is such that this could probably be approached after only 12 to 15 years. With that said, the 2020 LT should be capable of at least 25 years of improvement and 30 would not surprise me unduly. This is quite simply exquisite.

99 Points - Wine Advocate
The 2020 La Tâche Grand Cru is magical, mingling notions of mulberries, cherries and cassis with scents of bergamot, black tea, licorice, exotic spices and peonies. Full-bodied, rich and resonant, with a broad attack, huge mid-palate amplitude and a supple, seamless, elegantly muscular profile, this is a remarkably powerful but also profoundly complex, intellectually and sensually thrilling young wine. (WK)

98 Points - Decanter
The 2020 La Tâche incarnates everything wonderful about this vintage – it is ripe, exuberant, and approachable, yet packed with potential and the substance for long aging. The wine continues to impress with the similar exotic red fruit and floral notes that it showed out of barrel, and it is already giving great pleasure. Still, there is great concentration and length to this wine; it may, like the 2009 vintage, be ready to drink early and never shut down. Picking began on 30 August and finished on 2 – 3 September after a short break for rain. 14,844 bottles were produced. (CC)

98 Points - Jasper Morris
La Tâche is no denser in colour. The bouquet introduces nobility but as always in a slightly sterner register No easy access here. The stems are apparent on the palate, bringing crushed dark strawberries and white pepper, ahead of the roses. A fleeting thought of tar and roses but not the same acidity of course as Barolo, though there is a good thread nonetheless. There is much more red fruit here and perhaps some iron oxide, and indeed La Tâche does indeed display a redder soil.

98 Points - Vinous
The 2020 La Tâche Grand Cru was picked 30 August and 2 and 3 September at 29.7hL/ha. This has to be left for 5-10 minutes to unfurl. Complex nose, pressed flowers (peony and iris), hints of Lapsang Souchong and briary, this La Tâche has a cerebral nature that sets it apart. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannins. The 2020 is an exquisitely sculpted and focused wine, the epitome of an iron fist in a velvety glove. Silky smooth in texture, a peacock’s tail on the finish with unerring mineralité, this is a divine La Tâche that will age over many many years. (NM)

98 Points - Wine Spectator
La Tâche, per usual, is the outlier, darker and more brooding than the others, featuring sandalwood and spice aromas, while the flavors evoke black cherry, black currant, licorice and exotic spices. The most dense and tannic of the range, it combines power and elegance. (BS)

Product size: 750mL