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91 JG.
"The 1976 Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is quite fresh and youthful for its age, and really seems like an archetypical vintage for the very traditional style of this wine that the domaine aspires to each year. Late harvesting in 1976 certainly attained a bit of a glaze of botrytis for this wine, but the ’76 Monty wears it very gracefully in its fresh and floral nose of acacia blossoms, pear, lemon chiffon, a touch of fresh pineapple, lovely minerality and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and quite racy on the attack, with a silky core of fruit, good structural integrity . . . on the long and complex finish. The ’76 vintage has certainly not produced the most elegant group of white Burgundies, and this is true of the Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti as well as the wines of its neighbors, but I very much like the freshness and floral aspect that this wine has retained at thirty-one years of age. Really a tasty bottle at its apogee, and with plenty of life still in it." John Gilman, View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2009, Issue #22 |