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2007 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, La Tâche Grand Cru (4/8/2011)
Excellent. This was clearly the DRC in the blind pack, but I could not quite place it as a La Tache. It was a very good wine, but with some three quarters of the table professing to be a bit underwhelmed one could say that this was a victim both of its extreme youth and the super-high expectation connected to the vineyard. To be fair though, I thought the Felton Road Block 3 and the Bass Phillip Premium were not far behind at this point of the wines’ evolution. This had a clearly Burgundian, whole cluster nose - a real telltale sign. Chinese herbs, angelica root, wolfberries, earth, burnt toasty rubber notes, and some stewy, soupy red dates. Intriguing rather than attractive at the moment. The palate, on the other hand had tons going on, with great depth to its rich, sweet dark fruit notes and lots of nascent complexity with savoury orange peel notes, a touch of bittersweet herbs and ginseng and brambly whole cluster accents - a mouthfull of flavour coming together in a complex, ethereal whole. There was plenty of power, but the balance was so good that you barely noticed the concentration and weight here as the wine moved into a deep finish that had lots of length and persistence. This was the most interesting wine of the flight for sure, but it needs lots and lots of time still to come together and open up. At the moment, lots of complex going-ons, but just not enough integration or charm. (94 pts.)
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