Saturday, April 08, 2006

Just one... but it's a good one...

The 2001 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Romanee-St.-Vivant Morey Monge as decanted roughly 3 hours. It's supreme floral, robust cherry-cola and clove-spiced nose was intense. Awesome stuff. On the palate, the usual sweet fruit was much darker and earthier at this stage than the last bottles of this I tasted. These 2001's show more true terroir than the 2002s do. Perhaps this will change, but for right now these 2001s are babies and need a good bit of time. They blow away the 2003s... give this one at least another 5 years, then try it again.

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