DRC's 2004 : revisited

WINE TALK
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Our wine club decided to start the year with a blind tasting of the 6 wines from DRC .

  1. Still primary , spicy , linear . Lovely Pinot . You can taste the extract . Already delicious but will age another couple of decades . Grand Echezeaux ? ( = Grand Echezeaux )
  2. Sweeter , more floral . Very intens . I prefer the previous wine for it’s style . This is slightly too sweet for my taste . Must be St. Vivant ( = La Tache )
  3. Super wine . Some menthol and salt on the nose . Primary . Monolytic . Unbelievable lenght . This must be the Conti ( = Romanee Conti )
  4. slightly volatile . Spicy . A little green ? Not in the same league as the other wines . Richebourg ? ( = St.Vivant )
  5. Fresh , spicy , most " drinkable wine " of the 6 . Ready to enjoy . Slightly easier in composition . This must be the Echezeaux ( = Echezeaux ).
  6. A bit like the first wine . Linear , primary , spicy . More red fruit . A top wine but still too young . Must be la Tache ( = Richebourg ) .

A couple of remarks . No green notes here , except maybe the St.Vivant . The La Tache and the St.Vivant were not as good as the other ones yesterday , but this is only 1 tasting .
I absolutely loved the Grand Echezeaux and the Richebourg . And the Conti… well , a super wine . But I would leave it alone for another 20 years , if you have just 1 bottle left .
Overall , DRC outperformed this lousy vintage , producing very pure wines build for the long run . They are much better than what the wine critics have suggested . ( for example : Burghound scored the Echezeaux a 90 , djeez ) .

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Thanks for the update. I tasted them all on release and were impressed.

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My experience as well. Thanks for the notes.

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Hi Herwig Thanks for the Update! Had the DRC 04 Richebourg and Echezeaux a while ago and found them good not great. Next week we will have a 04 RSV in the line-up …

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I’ve only had the RSV. I thought it was quite good, not great. Much fun.

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Thanks Herwig, I have been impressed with their 04’s as well.

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I have found the 04 La Tache to be quite delicious with no green notes as well. Haven’t had the others yet.

Thanks for the update Herwig!

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Yes,

We have had a number of DRC '04’s in recent years right across the wines, and they are always good.

DRC definitely outperformed almost everyone in '04.

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Well, at a just slightly less grand level I drank a most beautiful bottle of Jadot Savigny Lavieres 04 tonight. It does, to be sure, have a strong signature, but that signature is of Jadot Savigny(regular consumers will know just what I mean) rather than the vintage.

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Tom…I thought you had said that we should wait until 2016 to open any 2004 red.

The Jadot Savigny Lavieres 04 is only 10 years old - are you sure it is not way too young neener

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It does, to be sure, have a strong signature, but that signature is of Jadot Savigny(regular consumers will know just what I mean) rather than the vintage.

Tom - I am a regular consumer of Jadot’s reds (but not his white aafter vintage 2002 as I got really burnt, specially his Morgeots -CdlChappele) and I know what you meant champagne.gif .

With age I prefer Jadot’s CdBeze than the same wine by Rousseau of the same vintage year ( except perhaps 1993 ).

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Interesting (and encouraging) results!

3 yrs ago I opened an '04 Richebourg that seemed quite GM affected…

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Maybe the problem is receding more quickly than I expected, Peter. I am just looking at the last small bit left in the bottle, it has evolved very positively overnight, unusually, and there is no trace of the 04 affliction, to which I am fairly sensitive. One previous bottle had it quite badly.

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Tom…I have not had any 04 red lately.

Many of the 04 reds ( which I had to buy ) are no longer with me. From my experience with Leroy 04 and others DRC 04 …they were evolving fast ( or faster than 1994 DRC reds ).