Romanee St Vivant 2007

Vosne Romanee / DRC

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Tasting Notes
A maturing and ultra-elegant, pure and quite delicately fruited nose is exceptionally spicy and floral in character. The refined and seductively textured, detailed and delineated middle weight flavors possess laser-like focus on the energetic, complex and strikingly long finish. This is an unqualified success for the 2007 vintage and I was seriously impressed with its overall sense of harmony, grace and class. Note that this is already drinking well though I would be inclined to hold it for a few more years first. Score: 95 Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2025+ 29 August 2020
An ultra elegant, pure and quite delicately fruited and spiced nose that is extremely fresh, floral and expansive that is more layered still as it introduces seductively textured, detailed and gorgeously delineated middle weight flavors that possess laser-like focus if less density than is usually seen with this wine. Indeed, this is rather like a ballerina with limited power and weight but the watch word here is purity, purity and purity. I quite like this but it will strike some as unduly light though I believe the underlying material is present such that it will add weight in bottle as it ages. Score: 94 Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2019+ 30 January 2010
The Domaine’s 2007 Romanee-St.-Vivant predictably inhabits a different world - not to mention being in a different league of complexity and intrigue - from their Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, or Richebourg of that vintage. Peat, leather, humus, forest floor, and decadent floral perfume are joined by an oceanic saline, alkaline, kelp-tinged aspect, and these surf-and-turf aspects follow on a polished palate that - despite only the slightest nod in the direction of overt fruitiness by way of dark berries - nevertheless displays a mouth-watering juiciness to accompany its myriad mineral and organic complexities. A persistently satisfying and thought-provoking finish points to the likelihood of 12-15 years continuance. Score: 93 David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2010-2025 01 June 2010
Medium red. Precise aromas of violet, cocoa powder, smoky oak and earth, with red berries emerging with aeration. Tighter in the middle palate than the Grands-Echezeaux, showing somewhat cooler, soil-driven flavors and a sexy dusty minerality, but this still boasts impressive breadth and fat. Finishes classically dry and extremely long, with building tannins. An exciting wine in the making but austere today and in need of a decade of patience. (93+ points) Score: 93 Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar 01 March 2010

Tasting Notes

A maturing and ultra-elegant, pure and quite delicately fruited nose is exceptionally spicy and floral in character. The refined and seductively textured, detailed and delineated middle weight flavors possess laser-like focus on the energetic, complex and strikingly long finish. This is an unqualified success for the 2007 vintage and I was seriously impressed with its overall sense of harmony, grace and class. Note that this is already drinking well though I would be inclined to hold it for a few more years first.

Score: 95

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2025+ 29 August 2020

An ultra elegant, pure and quite delicately fruited and spiced nose that is extremely fresh, floral and expansive that is more layered still as it introduces seductively textured, detailed and gorgeously delineated middle weight flavors that possess laser-like focus if less density than is usually seen with this wine. Indeed, this is rather like a ballerina with limited power and weight but the watch word here is purity, purity and purity. I quite like this but it will strike some as unduly light though I believe the underlying material is present such that it will add weight in bottle as it ages.

Score: 94

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2019+ 30 January 2010

The Domaine’s 2007 Romanee-St.-Vivant predictably inhabits a different world - not to mention being in a different league of complexity and intrigue - from their Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, or Richebourg of that vintage. Peat, leather, humus, forest floor, and decadent floral perfume are joined by an oceanic saline, alkaline, kelp-tinged aspect, and these surf-and-turf aspects follow on a polished palate that - despite only the slightest nod in the direction of overt fruitiness by way of dark berries - nevertheless displays a mouth-watering juiciness to accompany its myriad mineral and organic complexities. A persistently satisfying and thought-provoking finish points to the likelihood of 12-15 years continuance.

Score: 93

David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2010-2025 01 June 2010

Medium red. Precise aromas of violet, cocoa powder, smoky oak and earth, with red berries emerging with aeration. Tighter in the middle palate than the Grands-Echezeaux, showing somewhat cooler, soil-driven flavors and a sexy dusty minerality, but this still boasts impressive breadth and fat. Finishes classically dry and extremely long, with building tannins. An exciting wine in the making but austere today and in need of a decade of patience. (93+ points)

Score: 93

Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar 01 March 2010

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