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Vosne-Romanee – the vineyard articles

The Grand Crus of Vosne-Romanée

Some of the best Grand Crus are located in Vosne-Romanée – and this is also the case with some of the best 1er crus and village terroirs.

La Romanée

  • The Essence of La Romanee
    The celebration of the 200 years anniversary of the Liger-Belair family in Burgundy offered the opportunity to taste 12 vintages of La Romanee from 2002 to 2013. This is a rare treat indeed, and it gave me the chance to explore this magnificent terroir in depth – to find the esssence of La Romanee if you ...

La Tache

  • Terroir Insight: Domaine Lamarche, La Grande Rue “Cuvée 1959”
    While the vineyards of Burgundy are very old, changes and adjustments are done from time to time, and in some cases new wines and opportunities are created. One such wine is the Domaine Lamarche La Grande Rue “Cuvée 1959” a new luxury cuvée to top the existing La Grande Rue. This exciting new cuvée from Nicole Lamarche ...
  • La Tâche – a historic view on a legendary grand cru
    La Tâche is a legendary grand cru with a quite interesting history. It has always been a monopole – but nevertheless the monopole status have been challenged and the vineyard expanded quite dramatically within the last 100 years. The history of La Tâche involves some of the most prominent domaines in Vosne, the neighburing Les Gaudichots ...
  • Vosne-Romanee Les Gaudichots – History, owners & wines – update
    The Vosne Romanee Les Gaudichot is the relatively unknown neighbourg of the great La Tache vineyard. Collectors are however beginning to appreciate the Gaudichot terroir – and the demand for the few bottles made is rising year after year. The history of Les Gaudichots is very interesting and to a great extend also the history of ...

Richebourg

  • Richebourg – history, plots and owners – new update
    Richebourg is a legendary vineyard – and while Romanee-Conti, La Romanee and La Tache are regarded as slightly better, most Burgundy lovers can tell you about a very special moment with a bottle of Richebourg. My Richebourg moment was Henri Jayer Richebourg 1985 – tasted back in 2002 – a legendary wine and a ...

Romanée Saint-Vivant

  • Romanee Saint-Vivant – history, plots and owners – new update
    Romanee Saint-Vivant is somehow the rising star among the Grand cru’s of Vosne Romanee. For many years Richebourg was undisputed number four after the three big Grand Cru’s – Romanee-Conti, La Romanee and La Tache. But in the last two decades the wines from Romanee Saint-Vivant have shown big improvements, and the vineyard is now ...
  • Romanee-Saint-Vivant – the wines, domaines and negociants
    In my first article about the Romanee-Saint-Vivant we uncovered the history of the vineyard ending up with a list of the curent owners of RSV – see the first article about Romanee-Saint-Vivant here. This article is about the wines made from Romanee-Saint-Vivant. First a short aromatic profile of Romanee-Saint-Vivant – secondly a list of all the ...

La Grande Rue

  • Terroir Insight: Domaine Lamarche, La Grande Rue “Cuvée 1959”
    While the vineyards of Burgundy are very old, changes and adjustments are done from time to time, and in some cases new wines and opportunities are created. One such wine is the Domaine Lamarche La Grande Rue “Cuvée 1959” a new luxury cuvée to top the existing La Grande Rue. This exciting new cuvée from Nicole Lamarche ...
  • La Grande Rue – in a Vosne-Romanee sweet spot
    La Grande Rue is located north of La Tache and just south of La Romanee, Romanee-Conti and Romanee-Saint-Vivant – indeed a sweetspot just next to the very best vineyards in Burgundy – or if you like in the world. Whereas the four other vineyards are famous and most wines from them achieve high prices .. La ...

The 1er crus of Vosne-Romanée

Some of the very best 1er crus are located in Vosne-Romanée – producing wines that are matching the prices of most Grand Crus produced in the other Burgundy appellations.

Vosne-Romanee Aux Malconsorts

  • Terroir Insight: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair’s Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts
    Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair is back as a producer of Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts after 89 years of absence. The estate will expand in 2022, with 2.65 hectares of new plots in prominent vineyards, including its first plots in Grands Echezeaux, Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts, La Croix Rameau, and Aux Reas. Furthermore, it is adding to its existing ...
  • Vosne-Romanee Malconsorts the resurrection of a great 1er cru
    Vosne Romanee Malconsorts is the fast rising star of the 1er crus in the appellation. The regained fame and glory is due to a large change of ownership and a impressive rise in quality among the other existing owners. Malconsorts is now back to form and has taken its rightful place among the top 1er crus ...

Vosne-Romanee Cros Parantoux

  • The Henri Jayer Insight – Cros Parantoux the area and production
    The legendary 1er cru Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux was introduced by Henri Jayer in 1978 – before this the wine from this now famous vineyard was included in the Vosne-Romanée village of Domaine Henri Jayer. In connection with the Baghera/Wine auction of wines from the Henri Jayer domaine cellar held on June 17th 2018 new informations and ...
  • Cros Parantoux – the sweet spot of Richebourg
    Vosne-Romanee Cros Parantoux is a mythical vineyard … with a reputation created by the legendary Henri Jayer. With a location just above and next to Richebourg this 1er cru is regarded as something very special. But the story of Cros Parantoux doesn’t start with Henri Jayer, the vineyard was known much earlier. So lets take a ...

Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots

  • Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots – a fragmented delight
    The Aux Reignots is in my view one of the most interesting 1er crus of Cote de Nuits – its perhaps not quite in the same popularity league as Vosne-Romanee Cros Parantoux, Aux Malconsorts or Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses, but the focus on this terroir has increased dramatically during the last 10 to 15 years. Louis-Michel ...

Vosne-Romanee Aux Brûlées

    Vosne-Romanee Les Beaux-Monts

      Vosne-Romanee Les Petits-Monts

        Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots

        • Les Suchots: The Flamboyant Vosne 1er Cru
          One of the largest and most challenging 1ers crus is Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots. Wine from this vineyard is produced by more than 100 domaines and negociants. Les Suchots is quite a diverse vineyard, with some areas showing great complexity while others have fewer of the qualities of a great terroir. Add to this producers that range ...

        Vosne-Romanee Les Chaumes

          Vosne-Romanee La-Croix-Rameau

              Vosne-Romanee Clos des Réas

              • Vineyard Insight: Vosne Romanee Clos des Réas
                The Vosne-Romanee appellation is famous for it’s old grand cru monopoles – Romanee-Conti and La Romanee. There are however other monopoles in Vosne-Romanee, and while La Tâche and La Grande Rue are prominent monopoles today – they are in fact relatively new as they were formed in the 1930s. There are a few village monopole – ...

                The top village vineyards of Vosne-Romanée

                Vosne-Romanée also have some tremendous village terroirs, and quite many lieu-dit village cuvées are now produced in this magnificent appellation. Some of these are of 1er cru quality .. and can be truly delightful.

                Vosne-Romanee Village terroirs

                • Comte Liger-Belair Vosne-Romanée Clos du Château – my vin d’emotion
                  The joy of drinking a true vin d’emotion is unparalleled. Effortless, enjoyable, and hedonistic, these are wines with great drinkability, and they’re sometimes even down-to-earth, with true glou-glou character. One of my favourite vins d’emotion is the Clos du Château from Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. Only my budget limits how many of these I can consume ...
                • Terroir View: Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne La Colombiere
                  The Vosne-Romanée La Colombiere from Comte du Liger-Belair is a important wine for the estate as one of three village wines from Vosne. It’s a vivid and quite rich village, quite a contrast to the more floral and expressive Clos du Chateau. The La Colombiere have improved a lot during the latter years after the turnaround to ...
                • The Henri Jayer Insight – Cros Parantoux the area and production
                  The legendary 1er cru Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux was introduced by Henri Jayer in 1978 – before this the wine from this now famous vineyard was included in the Vosne-Romanée village of Domaine Henri Jayer. In connection with the Baghera/Wine auction of wines from the Henri Jayer domaine cellar held on June 17th 2018 new informations and ...
                • Villages vines from the Vosne twilight zone – Aux Réas
                  There are a lot of interesting terroirs in the Vosne-Romanee appellation itself and in the twillight zone between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanee. This area is somewhat overlooked, but as the new generations of vignerons take on these terroirs, there are very fine wines to find from these vineyards. The twillight zone … around the border between Vosne and ...
                • Terroir Insight: Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne Clos du Château
                  Clos du Château is sort of a signature wine for Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair. A very expressive Vosne Village made from a vineyard that used to be a part of the park around Château Vosne-Romanee. It’s a magnificent village … one of the very best in my view … often offering a forward and charming expression ...
                • Vineyard Insight: Vosne-Romanee Les Hautes Maizieres
                  There are many fine village terroirs in Vosne-Romanee producing some of the very best village wines from Burgundy.  If we go 20 or 30 years back most village wines were blends made from several vineyards but in recent years more and more single vineyard village wines have gained a stronger reputation and position in the market. It’s ...
                • Le Clos Goillotte – a unique Vosne-Romanee village
                  Vosne-Romanee Clos de la Goillotte is a hidden gem… and in my view one of the very best village terroirs in Burgundy. The Goillotte vineyard is located inside Vosne-Romanee just south of the La Goillotte estate, and below La Tache … with the Clos d’Eugenie separating Goillotte and La Tache. The History of La Goilotte and Le ...