Burghound: 99 Points
This is also intensely spicy with a similar array of highly restrained but exceptionally complex floral and cool red and black berry fruit aromas. There is a real sense of focused power to the beautifully well-delineated pure and highly nuanced multifaceted medium-bodied flavors wrapped in a deep reserve of dry extract before culminating in a breathtakingly persistent finish replete with the hallmark youthful austerity. Like all of the great vintages of this most famous of burgundies it is almost inconceivably spherical with a Zen-like sense of harmony. I could taste this hours later and like the '10 La Tâche this is not an especially powerful vintage for Romanée-Conti but it should be one of the all-time greats in due time. In short young burgundy just doesn't get any better than this. (Drink starting 2030)
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Wine Advocate: 97-99 Points
It?s fascinating to taste the 2010 Romanee-Conti. It is as if all of the preceding wines are subsets of the Romanee-Conti but in the Romanee-Conti we find all of the qualities that make the other wines so distinctive in one marvelously complete Burgundy. Aromatics reminiscent of Romanee St. Vivant make an appearance followed by the sweetness that can only be La Tache then the structure of Richebourg all wrapped into the total elusiveness of Romanee-Conti. I am reminded of my university studies in music. There are some compositions that are so profoundly moving because they only point out the futility in trying to truly understand them. Some things remain beyond the full grasp of the human intellect. Romanee-Conti is the vinous equivalent. Anticipated maturity: 2030-2060.
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