Domaine de la Romanée-Conti has released its 2022 wines in bottle and the UK wine trade and press were the first to taste them in London last week.
The domaine’s co-directors Perrine Fenal and Bertrand de Villaine were present, alongside UK agent Corney & Barrow’s managing director Adam Brett-Smith.
Following cripplingly low yields in the frost-stricken 2021, the 2022 vintage delivered an abundance of healthy grapes.
‘It’s almost as if the 2022 vintage was listening to us,’ says Brett-Smith, ‘because it has compensated for the tiny volumes that we tasted together last year, with a vintage of wonderful abundance’.
Detailed in bottle tasting notes and scores for DRC’s 2022 wines by Burgundy correspondent Charles Curtis MW will be published in March
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2022: In barrel scores
These scores are Charles Curtis MW’s in barrel scores from his Burgundy Report published last year, his in bottle scores will be published next month
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