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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) La Tâche Pinot Noir 1999
The medium to dark ruby-colored 1999 La Tache has sweet, tangy raspberry, black currant, candied cherry, leather, and spice aromas. This medium to full-bodied wine is harmonious, refined, and powerful. It is expansive, magnificently delineated, and feminine, particularly for La Tache. Its flavor profile is crammed with an assortment of super-ripe red and black fruit laced with vanilla beans. It has loads of sweet tannin that can be detected in its admirable finish. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
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Conrad Green 
Darker with intense blue fruit gorgeous and concentrated but with lifted plummy fruit and star anise. A saline quality and real depth. Young and amazing.
Darker with intense blue fruit gorgeous and concentrated but with lifted plummy fruit and star anise. A saline quality and real depth. Young and amazing.
9.7
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Good dark red; not crystal-clear. Very ripe, musky, multidimensional nose combines blackberry, raspberry, violet, earth, game, black pepper and herbs, plus a positive vegetal nuance. Plush, silky and very ripe but not particularly sweet, with concentrated dark fruit, spice and pepper flavors complicated by a hint of prune. ("More fruit ripeness than the '15," noted Aubert de Villaine just moments after we had tasted the '15 La Tâche) Finishes with substantial dusty tannins and a note of licorice. Not particularly high in acidity but this extremely complex wine is still just short of its peak drinking window. (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, March 2018)
Good dark red; not crystal-clear. Very ripe, musky, multidimensional nose combines blackberry, raspberry, violet, earth, game, black pepper and herbs, plus a positive vegetal nuance. Plush, silky and very ripe but not particularly sweet, with concentrated dark fruit, spice and pepper flavors complicated by a hint of prune. ("More fruit ripeness than the '15," noted Aubert de Villaine just moments after we had tasted the '15 La Tâche) Finishes with substantial dusty tannins and a note of licorice. Not particularly high in acidity but this extremely complex wine is still just short of its peak drinking window. (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, March 2018)
9.6Jens Lundqvist
Bartender/waiter/sommelier/ PA & Co
Spectacular, showing off great right now
Spectacular, showing off great right now
9.8
Yoon Ha
Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu
This one was all that, indeed.
This one was all that, indeed.
9.4Christine Havens
The 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche is a transcendent bottle, wherein no one element dominates, it's in absolute harmony, not unlike a great piece of music or art. It has pronounced power, and is at the same time weightless and ethereal. Layers of crushed raspberries, currants, blackberries and plum give substance to more fleeting layers of exotic spice, minerals, rose petals, black tea, and fresh alfalfa hay, all of which crescendos in a seemingly endless finish. A profound wine.
The 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche is a transcendent bottle, wherein no one element dominates, it's in absolute harmony, not unlike a great piece of music or art. It has pronounced power, and is at the same time weightless and ethereal. Layers of crushed raspberries, currants, blackberries and plum give substance to more fleeting layers of exotic spice, minerals, rose petals, black tea, and fresh alfalfa hay, all of which crescendos in a seemingly endless finish. A profound wine.
9.8Jörgen Lindström Carlvik
Owner, Brix Wine Consultants
Just amazing on the nose, pushing the variation new levels of excitement. Silky sweet on the almost full bodied palate, combining power and elegance, offering a plethora of fruit, spice yet remains sleek on the finish. Like a controlled Casbah market.
Just amazing on the nose, pushing the variation new levels of excitement. Silky sweet on the almost full bodied palate, combining power and elegance, offering a plethora of fruit, spice yet remains sleek on the finish. Like a controlled Casbah market.
10
Gary Arya-Armstrong
Sommelier Rockpool Bar and Grill
Elegant showing some development
Elegant showing some development
9.6
Rachel Macalisang
Lead Sommelier - The Bazaar by José Andrés
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!!
9.6
Daniel veit
If it gets any better than this, please pour me some. This was a special bottle.
If it gets any better than this, please pour me some. This was a special bottle.
10
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1999 DRC La Tache. Date night at Margot. Decanted and served, which was the right play. Lots of dark fruit, meat, and savory notes. “In the jowls” - great mouthfeel.
1999 DRC La Tache. Date night at Margot. Decanted and served, which was the right play. Lots of dark fruit, meat, and savory notes. “In the jowls” - great mouthfeel.
10
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