Domaine de la Romanee-Conti La Tache Grand Cru 2015

Professional Ratings

• 99 Decanter
  An exquisite floral, perfumed nose with billowing red fruits and sandalwood bursts from the glass. In the mouth, fabulous sweet red berry fruits of loganberry, strawberry and raspberry are joined by mocha, dark cherry, spices and cream. The very sweet, fine and firm tannins together with supple acidity provide an elegant shape, form and texture. Once again, La Tache’s old vine fruit - an average of 50 years - provides imperious style, complexity, power, pleasure and length. Simply sublime. Harvested 7th & 8th September. Bottled 15th to 17th, and 21st March 2017.
• 98 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2015 La Tâche Grand Cru is a young classic, soaring from the glass with an exotic and stunningly complex bouquet of dark berries, plums, hoisin, smoked duck, dark chocolate, licorice and Chinese five spice, with just a touch of rose hip on the upper register. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, multidimensional and authoritative, with more mid-palate depth than the Richebourg, its attack more textural and layered. The tannins here are fine grained but firm—swathed in an ample core of plummy, almost savory fruit—and the finish is long and scintillating. Cropped at 25 hectoliters per hectare and harvested September 7 and 8.