Professionele reviews
Robert Parker (94)
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2015 Corton Grand Cru wafts from the glass with a pretty bouquet of plum, red cherry, rose hip and herbs, notions of darker fruits and rich soil emerging only with extended aeration. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, sapid and penetrating, with vibrant acids and an assertive chassis of firm, youthfully stemmy tannins—though there's sufficient mid-palate depth to subsume those in the fullness of time. While the domaine's Corton, from the vineyards of Prince Florent de Mérode, is still a work in progress, the 2015 is the most successful rendition to date, and the balmy, low-yielding vintage seems to have played to the hill's strengths. This was the first of DRC's reds to be harvested in 2015, picked on September 5 at yields of 22 hectoliters per hectare, and unlike the rest of the domaine's wines, it was 20% destemmed.
Jancis Robinson (18)
Vines aged 46 years, yield 22 hl/ha. Bottled 27 Feb and 31 May 2018. 420 dozen produced.
Lightish crimson. Ethereal scent, subtle in the extreme but with many components comingled, currently a touch of exotic spice but also the freshest of red fruit – cranberry and raspberry. Deep and succulent on the palate, unbelievably smooth and still dense in a very discreet way. There’s a slight stemmy note of herbal freshness but it comes and goes rather than standing out. Gets more spicy and also stony/mineral in the glass. Excellent freshness that lifts the very long finish. So long. (JH)
Jasper Morris (96)
Picked 22nd September. There was no frost damage here. Rich dense purple centre. Gloriously exuberant yet still with a sense of classical structure. Flamboyant raspberry, some meaty moments in the middle, a wealth of fruit throughout, absolutely singing in its young fruit style. Energy and precision together. More new oak and more stems compared to earlier vintages. Tasted Jul 2019.
