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1996 Jean Grivot Richebourg

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RATINGS

94-97The Wine Advocate

...offers a gorgeously bright medium-to-dark ruby color and extraordinary fragrances of super-ripe plums, cherries, and morel mushrooms... ...brooding, powerful, full-bodied, mouth-coating, and refined block-buster... ...Wow! Bravo!

94+ Stephen Tanzer

Thick and sweet on entry, but with buns of steel. Here the acids hit the palate earlier than in the Echezeaux, leaving the wine rather tough in the middle palate. Great precision and complexity, not to mention power and vibrancy.

93Wine Spectator

Big, massive and racy, this full-bodied Pinot is loaded with pure, clean and sharp cassis, blackberry and raspberry character that marries nicely with subtly toasted and spicy oak accents.

REGION

France, Burgundy, Côte d'Or, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanee, Richebourg

Richebourg is an 18.3-acre Grand Cru pinot noir vineyard in the Cote de Nuits, within the commune of Vosne-Romanee. The vineyard lies just to the north of La Romanee and Romanee-Conti and is situated at elevations from 260 to 280 meters. The soil is a clay, pebble, limestone and sand mixture. Richebourg includes the subsection of Les Veroilles-sous-Richebourg. Principal landholders of Richebourg are Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, with 8.78 acres; Leroy, with 1.95 acres; and Gros Frere et Soeur, with 1.73 acres.

TYPE

Red Wine, Pinot Noir, Grand Cru

This red wine is relatively light and can pair with a wide variety of foods. The grape prefers cooler climates and the wine is most often associated with Burgundy, Champagne and the U.S. west coast. Regional differences make it nearly as fickle as it is flexible.