Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC) La Tache Monopole Grand Cru 2020 [NET]

Name: Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC) La Tache Monopole Grand Cru 2020 [NET]
Brand: Private [PRI]
SKU: SF-PRI--042726-44
Price: 5199.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$5,199⁹⁹

La Tâche is DRC's monopole and the largest of the domaine's Grand Crus, generally the most opulent and powerfully structured of their reds. 2020 was a warm, concentrated vintage in Burgundy, and the La Tâche distills it: dense, explosive, packed with the appellation's signatures dialed up several notches. Plum, hoisin, spice and blood orange, all amplified, with a broad attack and seamlessly muscular mid-palate. Approachable in flesh, backward in structure: this could give pleasure at 12 to 15 years and continue improving for 25 to 30 more. Imported by Wilson Daniels.

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Burghound

99 points

"A monopole of 6.06 ha Much like the Romanée St. Vivant, here the equally reserved nose is overtly floral in character with a beautifully layered array of hoisin, soy, clove, anise, black cherry coulis, sandalwood and exotic jasmine and pekoe tea scents. Once again, the texture of the rich and impressively concentrated broad-shouldered flavors is super-sleek, and they too exude an almost pungent minerality on the clean, bright and exceptionally persistent finale where the only nit is a touch of backend warmth. Despite being very firmly structured, the mid-palate density is such that this could probably be approached after only 12 to 15 years. With that said, the 2020 LT should be capable of at least 25 years of improvement and 30 would not surprise me unduly. This is quite simply exquisite."

Antonio Galloni

98 points

"The 2020 La Tâche Grand Cru is very typically La Tâche. Plum, hoisin, spice and blood orange are all amplified in an explosive, massively backward La Tâche that will need 15-20 years in the cellar to start drinking well. As is so often the case, whole clusters lend an exotic spice quality that is front and center. The warm growing season has taken all the La Tâche signatures and amplified them, resulting in a dense, explosive Burgundy that will thrill readers lucky enough to own it for many decades to come." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

99 points

"The 2020 La Tâche Grand Cru is magical, mingling notions of mulberries, cherries and cassis with scents of bergamot, black tea, licorice, exotic spices and peonies. Full-bodied, rich and resonant, with a broad attack, huge mid-palate amplitude and a supple, seamless, elegantly muscular profile, this is a remarkably powerful but also profoundly complex, intellectually and sensually thrilling young wine." —William Kelley

Jancis Robinson

18 points

"Transparent garnet. Spicy, rich depths but pretty uncommunicative on the nose – just a very slight roasted element. Just a little skinnier than usual. Or is it simply refined? It’s certainly very sleek rather than rich. Very pure, light tannic signature. Perhaps this is a cross between the usual Tâche style and the Richebourg’s transparency? It’s certainly different from previous vintages I can remember. A little stricter."

Decanter

98 points

"The 2020 La Tâche incarnates everything wonderful about this vintage – it is ripe, exuberant, and approachable, yet packed with potential and the substance for long aging. The wine continues to impress with the similar exotic red fruit and floral notes that it showed out of barrel, and it is already giving great pleasure. Still, there is great concentration and length to this wine; it may, like the 2009 vintage, be ready to drink early and never shut down. Picking began on 30 August and finished on 2 – 3 September after a short break for rain."

Wine Spectator

98 points

"La Tâche, per usual, is the outlier, darker and more brooding than the others, featuring sandalwood and spice aromas, while the flavors evoke black cherry, black currant, licorice and exotic spices. The most dense and tannic of the range, it combines power and elegance."

More about Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC)

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Pinot Noir
Vintage

2020
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Biodynamic
Style

Earthy , Minerally
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast lamb with herbs, wild boar ragu, duck confit, truffled risotto, aged Stilton.

Tasting Profile

Dry, full-bodied, rich and resonant with elegantly muscular tannins. Plum, hoisin, spice, blood orange, dark cherry, exotic florals. Massive mid-palate, very long finish.