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Estimate: $3,750
3cm, scuffed and worn, light adhesive residue on capsule, slightly recessed cork, nicked, scuffed, very lightly damp stained, lightly bin soiled label, #000143.
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"The 1976 Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is quite fresh and youthful for its age, and really seems like an archetypical vintage for the very traditional style of this wine that the domaine aspires to each year. Late harvesting in 1976 certainly attained a bit of a glaze of botrytis for this wine, but the ’76 Monty wears it very gracefully in its fresh and floral nose of acacia blossoms, pear, lemon chiffon, a touch of fresh pineapple, lovely minerality and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and quite racy on the attack, with a silky core of fruit, good structural integrity . . . on the long and complex finish. The ’76 vintage has certainly not produced the most elegant group of white Burgundies, and this is true of the Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti as well as the wines of its neighbors, but I very much like the freshness and floral aspect that this wine has retained at thirty-one years of age. Really a tasty bottle at its apogee, and with plenty of life still in it."
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"The 1976 Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is quite fresh and youthful for its age, and really seems like an archetypical vintage for the very traditional style of this wine that the domaine aspires to each year. Late harvesting in 1976 certainly attained a bit of a glaze of botrytis for this wine, but the ’76 Monty wears it very gracefully in its fresh and floral nose of acacia blossoms, pear, lemon chiffon, a touch of fresh pineapple, lovely minerality and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and quite racy on the attack, with a silky core of fruit, good structural integrity . . . on the long and complex finish. The ’76 vintage has certainly not produced the most elegant group of white Burgundies, and this is true of the Montrachet from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti as well as the wines of its neighbors, but I very much like the freshness and floral aspect that this wine has retained at thirty-one years of age. Really a tasty bottle at its apogee, and with plenty of life still in it."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Produces the world's most revered Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from a mosaic of tiny, terroir-defined climats. Its hierarchy of village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards makes site the ultimate expression of quality.
Chassagne-Montrachet is a village AOC in Burgundy's Cote de Beaune with numerous Premier Crus, renowned above all for rich, nutty, mineral Chardonnay whites, though it also makes firm Pinot Noir reds.
The world's most versatile white grape, producing everything from steely Chablis to rich, oaked whites. Its neutrality makes it a mirror of terroir and winemaking, and the foundation of white Burgundy and Champagne.