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Bid on this bottle of 2008 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Échézeaux Grand Cru (94RP, 93BH, 92JG). Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The 2008 Echezeaux is a noticeable step up in quality from the Vosne-Romanee. This is a decidedly rich, powerful Echezeaux endowed with considerable muscle. The aromas and flavors build beautifully towards a dazzling, harmonious finish. The 2008 is a big Echezeaux that could use further time in the cellar. There is plenty of underlying structure to support a long life in the cellar. The 2008 is seriously impressive. If any wine can be said to represent ‘value’ among the Domaine’s 2008s, the Echezeaux is it. (RP)" (09/2011)
This lot contains the following items:
2008 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Échézeaux Grand Cru (qty: 1)
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2008 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Échézeaux Grand Cru (750 ml)Quantity: 1Provenance: Purchased from reputable sources and stored in the temperature controlled wine cellar of a San Francisco based collector. Pulled directly from the cellar by K&L Auctions.Label condition: Lightly Scuffed Label, Writing on LabelTasting Notes:- Professional Reviews
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
94
The 2008 Echezeaux is a noticeable step up in quality from the Vosne-Romanée. This is a decidedly rich, powerful Echezeaux endowed with considerable muscle. The aromas and flavors build beautifully towards a dazzling, harmonious finish. The 2008 is a big Echezeaux that could use further time in the cellar. There is plenty of underlying structure to support a long life in the cellar. The 2008 is seriously impressive. If any wine can be said to represent ‘value’ among the Domaine’s 2008s, the Echezeaux is it. (AG)
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Allen Meadows - Burghound
93
A notably riper, intensely spicy, airy and extremely fresh nose blends both red and blue berry fruit aromas as well as warm earth notes that continue onto the rich, velvety and mouth coating medium-bodied flavors that display a bit more minerality than I typically find, all wrapped in a firm, racy and driving finish that delivers outstanding length. This is a dramatically good effort because this is always very good, it is rarely great but in 2008, it's first rate.
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John Gilman
92
The Echézeaux was forty percent de-stemmed in 2008, which is rather a rarity at DRC, who strongly prefers to utilize whole cluster fermentation whenever possible. But as Monsieur Noblet observed, not all of the stems were up to the quality that the domaine requires for whole cluster in Echézeaux this year. The wine has really turned out well, and is one of the most transparent young vintages of Echézeaux that I can recall from DRC. The bouquet is a superb blend of cherries, red plums, orange peel, complex soil tones, a hint of cinnamon and a judicious framing of cedary wood. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, pure and complex, with a very poised and sweet core of fruit, excellent focus and a very long, classy and ripely tannic finish. A lovely, lovely wine. 92+
Ratings: RP: 94 BH: 93 JG: 92
