Richebourg, Domaine de la Romanée Conti 2022

The 2022 La Tâche Grand Cru is the most complex and compelling wine in the range at this early stage. Wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet red berries and plums mingled with rose petals, orange zest, exotic spices, incense and wintergreen, it's full-bodied, rich and layered, with a deep and pure core of fruit, lively acids and sweet, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, gently oak-inflected finish. It was harvested the fourth through the sixth of September, just after the Grands-Échézeaux, and bottled in March 2024.

A little deeper and darker in crimson colour. The nose has a solidity of concentrated fruit as befits Richebourg, without sacrificing class. Powerful dark raspberry along with the deepest red but not black cherry. Perfect ripeness. Sensuality with a high-class backbone, the velvet texture invigorated by the lift of the whole bunches. Exceptionally long. Drink from 2037-2052. Tasted May 2025.