Domaine de la Romanée Conti is co-owned by the de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families, the former successors to Jacques-Marie Duvault Blochet who bought the vineyard of La Romanée Conti in 1869, the latter since acquiring the shares of other descendants of Duvault-Blochet in 1942. The Domaine is today run by Aubert de Villaine and Henri-Frederic Roch. Many people in Burgundy just refer to ‘DRC’ as “the Domaine”.
The domaine has 30 hectares of vineyards, all Grand Crus. As well as the the 1.8 hectare monopole La Romanée Conti, the Domaine purchased its other monopoly, La Tâche, in 1933, along with significant holdings in the grand crus of Richebourg, Romanée St Vivant, Grands-Echezeaux, Echezeaux, and Le Montrachet at various points in the 19th and 20th centuries. Corton was added in 2009 with Corton-Charlemagne to be released in 2018. The Domaine is the largest owners of each of the red wine grand crus.
93-95 Points Allen Meadows
A much more restrained, even taciturn nose that is actually quite ripe, spicy, fresh and diaphanous features primarily floral infused red berry, mineral and Asian spice aromas that merge gracefully into supple, round and tautly muscled broad-shouldered flavors that are almost as pure as those of the RSV, all wrapped in a detailed, focused and almost painfully intense finish brimming with minerality and striking length. This is a karate champion of a wine that isn’t especially big but the power and authority of the punch is hard to believe. I suspect that despite the fact that the ’07 Riche will not be a long distance runner by the standards that are typical here, this will be a late bloomer in terms of permitting a true assessment of its character and potential, meaning at least a decade.
94 Points 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.
18.5/20 Points Jancis Robinson
Gorgeously sweet red-fruit fragrance. Again with that slightly stemmy note as in the Grands Échezeaux. Darker fruit and more spice on the palate. Smooth, dry and firm all at once. Grain of the tannins more present and a more savoury aftertaste than the Échezeaux and Grands Échezeaux. A journey from perfumed red fruit to darker savoury tension on the finish. Then at the very end it slides away – long but delicate