D
100
Decanter
RP
96+
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
V
95
Vinous
WS
96
Wine Spectator
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Domaine de la Romanee Conti (DRC) Conti Romanee St Vivant Grand Cru 2005

2 units available online.
Product description

100 Points - Decanter

Medium-full colour. Ethereal nose. A lighter wine than many of these Vosne grands crus. Less new oaky also. This is highly individual and very, very delicious. Rich, fragrant and complex. Impeccably textured. A great wine. 

96+ Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Just as this year’s Echezeaux challenges the quality of the Grands-Echezeaux, another surprise of the vintage is a spectacular showing for the 2005 Romanee-St.-Vivant. A startlingly dark, mouth-watering amalgam of purple plum paste, blackberry preserves, bitter chocolate, toasted walnut, soy, and raw beef intrigues the nose. On the palate, this cleaves to the dark side, with viscous, mouth-coating concentration of lightly-cooked black fruits, charred meat, mysterious forest floor complexity, and bitter-sweet florality, but simultaneously delivers a vibratory finish like that of the energetic Grands-Echezeaux. With its palpable extract, profound personality, and refined but abundant tannins, this is surely wine to set aside for at least a decade. 

96 Points - Wine Spectator

Impressive and very fruity, smelling like cherry, red currant and spice. Round, yet delicate and lacy in texture, this displays just a hint of a vegetal element, which should turn more to floral and spice notes with age. 

95 Points - Vinous

A last minute addition to the lineup, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti’s 2005 Romanee Saint-Vivant opens with the most extraordinary, alluring bouquet imaginable. Silky, nuanced and super-polished on the palate, with exceptional purity, the 2005 simply soars out of the glass. The classic weightlessness of RSV comes through loud and clear. Bright saline notes give the 2005 a closing kick of freshness. The 2005 is a very pretty wine, although the profoundness of the aromatics doesn’t fully follow through to the palate, where the wine is a bit slender, especially compared to what follows in this flight.