Romanée-Conti
Grand Cru vineyard in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, France
Romanée-Conti is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for red wine in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, France, with Pinot Noir as the primary grape variety. It is situated within the commune of Vosne-Romanée and is a monopole of the winery Société Civile du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, which takes its name after this vineyard. Romanée-Conti borders on La Romanée in the west, Richebourg in the north, Romanée-Saint-Vivant in the east and La Grande Rue in the south. The AOC was created in 1936.
Wine from the vineyard is among the most sought after, and expensive, in the world. In October 2010, 77 bottles sold for a total of US$750,609 (about US$9,748 each) at auction. Ferran Adrià sold four bottles of Romanée-Conti 2004 for US$52,062 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York in April 2013. On 13 October 2018, at Sotheby's of New York, a single bottle of Romanée-Conti 1945 from the cellar of Robert Drouhin sold for $558,000. At Sotheby's Beaune auction on 2 July 2024, four new world record prices were set for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) wines from the cellar of Pierre Chen, including a three-bottle lot of 2007 DRC Montrachet at €15,800 per bottle, a magnum of 2005 DRC La Tâche at €35,000, a three-bottle lot of 2014 DRC La Tâche at over €9,100 per bottle, and a three-bottle lot of 2005 DRC Échezeaux at €10,000 per bottle.
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Romanée-Conti has been called "one of the greatest wines of the world and the most perfect as well as the most expensive of Burgundy ...
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