- Home/
- Wine Directory/
- France/
- Burgundy/
- 2009 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Corton Grand Cru, Prince Florent de Merode
$DRC
2009 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Corton Grand Cru, Prince Florent de Merode
Bottle size (ML)
Current price
Start Your Wine Collection with 2009 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Corton Grand Cru, Prince Florent de Merode
Begin your portfolio with a prestigious wine that has a history of growth.- Enjoy fully managed, secure storage facilities with insurance coverage.
- Get expert advice on when to hold and when to sell.
Vinovest 100Part of our index that tracks the 100 most investment-worthy wines in the world
11.6% of All Producers of Fine Wine
Grand CruThe highest and most respected classification for a French vineyard
13.7% of All Fine Wine
Limited ProductionLess than 500 cases made per year. Good luck finding this at your local wine store.
7.5% of All Fine Wine
Grower ProducerWinemaker owns the vineyard, harvests the fruit, and produces the wine - rare in modern winemaking
12.9% of All Producers of Fine Wine
Top VintageBehold! One of the finest vintages of this wine ever made.
61.1% of Vinovest Wines
Family-OwnedFamily-owned wineries deliver a personal winemaking touch that corporations cannot
18.6% of All Producers of Fine Wine
Top 5A top 5 wine in the region
17.0% of All Fine WineCritics Scores
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2009 Corton is a showstopper. The huge, boisterous bouquet is the first sign the Corton is just as dazzling from bottle as it was from barrel. Layers of fruit saturate the palate as this flashy, exuberant wine continues to put on weight as it sits in the glass. This is a decidedly opulent Burgundy that pushes the boundaries of what longtime DRC drinkers expect from the winery, but it is a gorgeous, striking wine in its own way. The 2009 is a great first vintage for the Corton.
Stephen Tanzer
Good deep red. Sexy, high-toned perfume of liqueur-like red berries, orange zest, minerals and truffle. Penetrating, savory and intense, delivering an exhilarating combination of creamy texture and energy. Wonderfully rich flavors of strawberry, raspberry, smoke and minerals complicated by chocolate and wild herbs. Firmly structured, very long wine with tannins fully enrobed by fruit. A strong first release for this wine, which is made from 2.4 hectares of vines in the grand crus Corton Renardes, Bressandes and Clos du Roi, which DRC leased in late 2008 from the Domaine Prince Florent de Merode. Incidentally, I can't recall the last time I began a Burgundy cellar visit with a grand cru.
Wine Spectator
Rich and dense, this red reveals aromas of wet earth and wild berry, with a touch of animal, offering sweet fruit, density and muscle underneath. Finishes long and satisfying. A blend of parcels from Clos du Roi, Bressandes and Les Renardes that DRC leased from the Prince de Merode estate beginning in November 2008.
Decanter
Splendid colour. Ample, fat, black cherries and chocolate flavours on the nose. Full body. Quite structured and tannic. Very good grip. Just a little foursquare on the follow through. But good richness and depth. Needs time.
Burghound
At nine years of age, this remains a brooding and introverted effort with a clearly sauvage-inflected nose of deeply pitched plum and a variety of purple fruit aromas that are liberally sprinkled with earth and spice nuances. There is excellent richess to the overtly powerful and robust big-bodied flavors that are dense and altogether serious, all wrapped in a complex and well-muscled finish that flashes a hint of warmth. A classic if ripe Corton built to age and it will definitely need it. Tasted thrice since 2015 with mostly consistent notes save for one bottle that displayed a whiff of brett.
Burghound.com
At nine years of age, this remains a brooding and introverted effort with a clearly sauvage-inflected nose of deeply pitched plum and a variety of purple fruit aromas that are liberally sprinkled with earth and spice nuances. There is excellent richess to the overtly powerful and robust big-bodied flavors that are dense and altogether serious, all wrapped in a complex and well-muscled finish that flashes a hint of warmth. A classic if ripe Corton built to age and it will definitely need it. Tasted thrice since 2015 with mostly consistent notes save for one bottle that displayed a whiff of brett.
John Gilman
The first vintage of DRC’s Corton, made from a blend of three finest terroirs on the hill of Corton (Bressandes, Renardes and Clos du Roi) has turned out very well, particularly in the context of the very ripe profile of the ’09 vintage. The bouquet is deep, complex and quite plummy for young Corton, offering up scents of plums, black cherries, a hint of red currant, cocoa, venison, a nice base of minerality and a suave base of nutty new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite plush on the attack, with a sappy core, a fair bit of ripe tannin and impressive lightness of step on the long and beautifully balanced finish. A really fine first effort for the domaine on the hill.