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The 2020 La Tâche Grand Cru is very typically La Tâche. Plum, hoisin, spice and blood orange are all amplified in an explosive, massively backward La Tâche that will need 15-20 years in the cellar to start drinking well. As is so often the case, whole clusters lend an exotic spice quality that is front and center. The warm growing season has taken all the La Tâche signatures and amplified them, resulting in a dense, explosive Burgundy that will thrill readers lucky enough to own it for many decades to come.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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Transparent garnet. Spicy, rich depths but pretty uncommunicative on the nose – just a very slight roasted element. Just a little skinnier than usual. Or is it simply refined? It’s certainly very sleek rather than rich. Very pure, light tannic signature. Perhaps this is a cross between the usual Tâche style and the Richebourg’s transparency? It’s certainly different from previous vintages I can remember. A little stricter. (JR)
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.
About the producer
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or simply “DRC” is without doubt the most famous domaine in Burgundy and one of the most famous producers on earth. The Grand Cru vineyard from which it takes its name produces the world’s most expensive wine by a long margin.