The most concentrated, pure, ethereal and profound wine of the group and easily the best Pinot Noir in our memories, this bottling has the uncanny power to render the rest of its peers, and, indeed, Pinot Noirs everywhere, into pretenders. For days afterward, we would drink no Pinot because none could compare, and, even now, we sit here ready to go off with a bottle of Romanee-Conti and sit in a quiet, isolated place and contemplate its beauty for hours. Perhaps, our tasting compatriot was right ...

Good deep red. Less expressive but still utterly sexy nose offers plum, raspberry, flowers, smoke and earth. Hints at its superb volume but this is quite closed and tightly knit today, and much less expressive and sweet than La Tache. But this superconcentrated wine seemed to gain sweetness with aeration, showing an increasingly fat, seamless texture without any loss of energy as it opened in the glass. Really saturates the palate on the aftertaste, where the tannins are thoroughly buffered by th...