2017 Romanee St Vivant
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The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is 100% whole bunches, matured in 25% new oak. The disarmingly pure bouquet features an extraordinary pure floral perfume, violet and iris intermingling, and mainly red fruit but with veins of blue. The palate is silky-smooth with fine-grained tannin, hints of dark chocolate infusing the dark berry fruit, and perhaps even a hint of salted licorice toward a finish that fans out with self-assurance. This is going to be utterly sublime.
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Neal Martin
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is a brilliant wine, wafting from the glass with a complex and alluring bouquet of cherries, red berries, rose petal, blood orange and Asian spices. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny and multidimensional, with a lovely sense of completeness, succulent acids and a deep and concentrated core of fruit, concluding with a long and sapid finish. Elegant and compellingly complex, the Romanée-Saint-Vivant is the king of the cellar this year.