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Romanée St. Vivant 2013 75cl

AOC Grand Cru | Côte de Nuits | Bourgogne | France
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96 Robert Parker
The 2013 Romanée-Saint-Vivant has enthralling transparency and clarity on the nose with perfumed black cherry, bilberry and cold stone scents, perhaps almost like Richebourg in style! The palate is medium-bodied with saturated, silky smooth tannins, luscious red cherry and pomegranate fruit with great purity on the long and tender finish. This is very tempting and sensual. Put a padlock and key on this for several years. Lalou was looking positively “chipper” when I visited her cellars on a Friday morning. Last time she has been suffering after a cold but today she was “en forme," chatty and energetic as ever. I have a theory that she is the “Benjamin Button” of Vosne: more and more youthful as she gets older…or is that younger? As usual, I spent a few moments gazing at the plethora of photographs adorning the walls of various luminaries with Lalou before descending in the elevator with her two dogs, one of whom was almost covered in Musigny 2013 when it leaped in front of the spit bucket. “The 2013 was a difficult season,” she told me, “but autumn saved the vintage. I like the 2013, because each terroir is very expressive. It’s another thing compared to 2012…just different. We started the picking on 25 September in Nuits Saint Georges and finished on 3 October. The yields were 16-hl/ha on average in 2013, which is more than 9 hectoliter per hectare in 2012 and 14 hectoliter per hectare in 2014.” I tasted through the entire range of reds from Leroy save for the Corton-Charlemagne having been bottled three weeks prior to my visit. Indeed, I got the impression that Lalou was pleased with how the wines were in barrel and heeding her policy of bottling relatively earlier than her peers, entertained the possibility of bottling the reds in December. As you would expect, such low yields and meticulous attention to the vineyard has created some exceptionally fine 2013s. The notes hopefully speak for themselves, but would point attention towards a really quite riveting Latricières-Chambertin 2013, which in the past I have felt was not one of Lalou’s strongest wines. However on this occasion…wow…it has the audacity to shade the Chambertin. Also, I enjoyed the brightness and transparency exuded by the Savigny-lès-Beaune les Nanbartons and the undeniable complexity of her Musigny, alas just two barrels like last year, although if rarity turns you on, try and find her hail-affected Volnay Santenots that was reduced to a single barrel. 
Producteur
Domaine Leroy
Confrontée à des difficultés croissantes pour dénicher des cuvées répondant aux exigences du label Maison Leroy, Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy a décidé d’acheter ses propres vignes. D’où la fondation en 1988, du Domaine Leroy, issu de la réunion de plusieurs domaines. Le vignoble actuel s’étend sur une superficie de 21 hectares, situés essentiellement dans des zones classées Grand Cru et Premier Cru. Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy est intimement convaincue que tout est vivant – depuis les sols jusqu’aux raisins, mais aussi l’humanité elle-même. En toute logique, elle a donc d’emblée adopté le principe de la viticulture biodynamique dans ses vignes, par respect du terroir. Cette méthode culturale plutôt controversée auparavant est désormais passée dans les mœurs en tant qu’approche globale axée sur l’inter connectivité existant au niveau de l’environnement. Elle prend également en compte les influences astrologiques et cosmiques. Sans le moindre recours aux engrais, herbicides, insecticides ou pesticides chimiques, les vignes sont entretenues manuellement tout au long de l’année. Les résultats ainsi obtenus par ce producteur soucieux de la qualité sont stupéfiants. Les vins sont extrêmement concentrés tout en étant raffinés et empreints d’une pureté rare, fruit d’un vignoble géré de manière intuitive.