2017 Romanee St Vivant
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The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru has a very open and expressive bouquet, with background scents of tobacco infusing the black fruit. There is fine mineralité , very focused with marine scents emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannins, impressive substance and tension, a little new oak to be subsumed with a light spiced, quite sapid finish. Convincing length. Excellent. Tasted at the Domaine de L’Arlot tasting at La Cabotte in London.
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Neal Martin
Neal Martin
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The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru has an exquisitely-defined, focused bouquet of brambly red fruit, crushed stone and wilted rose petal. The palate is refined but powerful, with gently grippy tannins. There is a Richebourg-like backbone but Romanée-Saint-Vivant-like elegance toward the impressively long finish. This is a magnificent 2017 Grand Cru. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting.
Opening in the glass with a deep but youthfully reserved bouquet of raspberries and cherries mingled with notions of rose petals, violets and spices, the 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is full-bodied, supple and enveloping, its velvety tannins cloaked in succulent fruit. Charming and exquisitely structurally refined, this is nonetheless the deepest, most introverted wine in the range, and it will demand at least a decade's patience.