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Romanée Saint Vivant, Domaine Hudelot-Noellat 2014

Tasting Notes

I knew that the 2014 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru would be great when I tasted it from barrel last year...but not this great. It has a wonderful, tensile bouquet that just seems to sparkle. The fruit is so crystalline and laden with energy and mineralité that you almost have to sit down! The palate is surfeit with energy, the fruit perhaps a little darker than in barrel with white pepper, spices towards the almost Richebourg-like finish. Tasting them side-by-side, I would err for this over the Richebourg - it is a magnificent wine from Charles van Canneyt.

97
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com, December 2016

(from a bottle opened at the domaine). An overtly spicy and appealingly layered nose groups together a broad range of spice elements with notes of red and dark berry, floral, plum and herbal tea, all of which is trimmed in noticeable if not intrusive wood. The vibrant and beautifully textured middle weight flavors possess a silky mid-palate mouth feel, all wrapped in a delicious, focused and lingering finish that exhibits a hint of pit fruit bitterness though the slightly austerity that was present the first time I reviewed this has largely disappeared. Lovely and the mid-palate is sufficiently supple that this could even be enjoyed young even though there is plenty of upside development potential remaining.

93
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (65), January 2017

The 2014 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru was tasted from a one-year-old barrel, though the final blend will include 50% new oak. It has a beautifully defined bouquet with blackberry, raspberry and a hint of fig, somehow effortless and wonderfully transparent. The palate is medium-bodied with sensual, quite ripe tannins. There is good volume here, impressive density and yet the overriding feeling is one of refinement. Then just on the finish there is something spicy, almost earthy, as it gently fans out. This is an exquisite Romanée-Saint-Vivant in the making.

94/96
Neal Martin, Wine Advocate (222), December 2014

**Note: from a .48 ha parcel of vines**
An overtly spicy and appealingly layered nose groups together a broad range of spice elements with notes of red and dark berry, floral, plum and exotic Asian-style tea. The vibrant and beautifully textured middle weight flavors possess a silky mid-palate mouth feel, all wrapped in a delicious, focused and lingering finish that exhibits a hint of pit fruit bitterness.

91/93
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (61), January 2016
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