96
points
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2004 La Tâche Pinot Noir (La Tâche)
Although this wine is very firm and closed at the outset, it opens—and keeps opening in the mouth—to offer great fruit flavors. It is finely balanced, very pure, combining an ethereal character with the proper feet-in-the-soil taste of great Pinot Noir. Age for 20 years, if you can bear to wait.
— R.V.
(3/1/2007)
94
points
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2004 Pinot Noir (Richebourg)
Smoky aromas set the scene for a complex, fascinating wine. Like so many 2004s, it is striking for the purity of its fruit. And if there is a hint of green in the tannins, this certainly doesn’t do the wine any harm. It’s more that it shows how much time it needs to mature. Aftertaste is fresh.
— R.V.
(3/1/2007)