2007 Romanée-St-Vivant, Grand Cru, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Burgundy

The Domaines 2007 Romanee-St.-Vivant predictably inhabits a different world not to mention being in a different league of complexity and intrigue from their Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, or Richebourg of that vintage. Peat, leather, humus, forest floor, and decadent floral perfume are joined by an oceanic saline, alkaline, kelp-tinged aspect, and these surf-and-turf aspects follow on a polished palate that despite only the slightest nod in the direction of overt fruitiness by way of dark berries nevertheless displays a mouth-watering juiciness to accompany its myriad mineral and organic complexities. A persistently satisfying and thought-provoking finish points to the likelihood of 12-15 years continuance.David Schildknecht - 29/06/2010

An ultra elegant, pure and quite delicately fruited and spiced nose that is extremely fresh, floral and expansive that is more layered still as it introduces seductively textured, detailed and gorgeously delineated middle weight flavors that possess laser-like focus if less density than is usually seen with this wine. Indeed, this is rather like a ballerina with limited power and weight but the watch word here is purity, purity and purity. I quite like this but it will strike some as unduly light though I believe the underlying material is present such that it will add weight in bottle as it ages. (allen_meadows, burghound_com.com, January 2010)