Romanée-Conti
Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France
Planted to just 1.81ha of old, low-yielding and meticulously cultivated Pinot Noir vines, Romanée-Conti is located mid-slope at the very centre of the Vosne Grand Cru belt, just above the village of Vosne-Romanée itself. Here shallower soil than the adjacent Grands Crus create Pinot Noirs of unsurpassed finesse, velvety smoothness and hypnotisingly exotic spice.
The wines of Romanée-Conti have been highly prized for many centuries. As long ago as 1780, the Archbishop of Paris described them as "velvet and satin in bottles”. From 1760 until the French Revolution, the vineyard was owned by the Louis François I de Bourbon, the Prince of Conti, who, it is claimed, insisted on keeping all of its wines for his personal consumption, only selling those of the neighbouring vineyards under his ownership.
