Corton Grand Cru Prince Florent de Merode 2018

The wine in this vintage

A hot, dry summer, an early harvest and a generous crop: 2018 gave Burgundy sunny reds, rich in fruit and very supple, with producers challenged to keep freshness and balance. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti handled the vintage with its customary restraint, and its Corton 2018 offers ripe dark fruit of blackberry and black cherry, spicy and earthy notes, a full body and velvety tannins. It is a generous wine that can already be enjoyed today, but its substance will allow it to keep developing for several more years, gaining complexity and definition.

The producer · Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is, by universal consent, the ultimate reference point in Burgundy and one of the most revered names in the world of wine. Based in Vosne-Romanée, at the heart of the Côte de Nuits, it takes its name from the vineyard bought by the Prince of Conti in 1760. Since the nineteenth century the estate has been tied to the de Villaine family, joined in the twentieth century by the Leroy and later Roch families; Aubert de Villaine steered it for decades with a vision both rigorous and humble. The Domaine owns the two monopoles of Romanée-Conti and La Tâche, along with major holdings in Richebourg, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Grands-Échezeaux, Échezeaux and Montrachet, more recently joined by Corton and Corton-Charlemagne. Organic and biodynamic farming, very low yields, harvesting at full ripeness and generous use of whole clusters produce wines of extraordinary transparency, depth and longevity: pure statements of terroir rather than of cellar style.

Critics' scores

• 95 Decanter

Technical details

Producer

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Region

Burgundy

Country

Francia

Type

Rosso

Vintage

2018

When to drink

Hold, still evolving

Sizes

75 cl, Magnum 150 cl, Case of 6 × 75 cl

eWibe code

0450818