2007 DRC Richebourg

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William Kelley - Wine Advocate

The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's 2007 Richebourg Grand Cru is still a few years away from the beginnings of maturity, and while it's quite dramatic immediately after opening, offering up aromas of peonies, orange rind, red plums, raspberries and exotic spices, it becomes a little more aromatically reserved after a few hours. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and sumptuous, it's ample and fine-boned, with filigree tannins, bright girdling acids and a long, saline finish

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John Gilman

Not surprisingly, the very elegant style of the 2007 vintage plays more into the hands of a terroir such as Romanée- St.-Vivant more so than it does with Richebourg, as this is a vintage that glories in delicacy, lace-like complexity and profound soil tones, none of which are really quintessential aspects of the terroir of Richebourg. Nevertheless, the domaine has made a beautiful bottle of ’07 Richebourg, but be forewarned that this is one of the least powerful young vintages of this wine to emerge from DRC in many years. That of course is not to say that it is any less in terms of quality, but stylistically it is very much a creature of its vintage. The bouquet is deep and gorgeous, as it offers up notes of red berries, cherries, lovely minerality, coffee, roses and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is fullish, deep and tangy, with lovely length and focus, good mid-palate intensity, particularly fine transparency for young Richebourg, and fine-grained tannins on the long and tangy finish. This wine may well put on weight in the bottle, but I might prefer to say it always remain the lean and impressively complex thoroughbred that it is out of barrel. A lovely bottle

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Bruce Sanderson - Wine Spectator

Reserved after bottling and shipping, displaying strawberry and spice aromas and flavors. Though rich and fleshy for the vintage, this is a slimmed-down version, with present tannins making it a bit square on the back end, despite its long finish