Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Échézeaux Grand Cru 2019

Bertrand de Villaine, co-manager of the domaine, avers that the recent re-planting of part of the DRC Echézeaux will help the vines adapt to global warming. For now the young vines do not enter the blend, whose grapes are from vines at least thirty years of age. The result is substantial and not as forward as it has been in the past, with more red fruit than black. There is an immediate rush of fruit, but plenty of complexity behind that. This cuvée seems to improve every year. Drinking window: 2025-2065. Score – 97. (Charles Curtis, MW, decanter.com, June 13, 2022)