Domaine de la Romanee-Conti- A Private Sale
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 03:00PM EDT - Sat, Oct 5, 2024 03:00PM EDT
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- 2012
- 750ml
- France
- Burgundy
- Cote de Nuits
- Flagey-Echezeaux
- Pinot Noir
- Red
- Grands Echezeaux
- II3045
- II3045
Lot 69
2012 DRC Grands Echezeaux - 1 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 1 bottle(s) of 2012 DRC Grands Echezeaux - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $3200 - $3800 with a Buy it now price of $3500. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11535.
Please note the following conditions on the bottle in this lot - Scratched label.
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All lots are located in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Confirmation of pickup or delivery of Iron Gate Commercial Auction winnings must be made within 60 days of auction close. Thereafter, your winnings will be subject to storage fees, including a $75 setup, subsequent $5.00/case/month and $1.25 per bottle fee for inventory services. If no contact has been made within two years, auction winnings will be considered abandoned.
It is the responsibility of the buyer to make all arrangements for insuring, packing and removing the property purchased and any assistance by the Auctioneer, or the employees of, agents or contractors in packing and removal shall be rendered as a courtesy and without any liability to them. The Auctioneer shall not be liable for any errors or omissions or damage caused by packers and shippers, notwithstanding the fact that the Auctioneer may have recommended such shippers or packers to the purchaser.
These bottles are from the cellar of a long time licensee (restaurant) in Eastern Canada. They were acquired on release from the agent and immediately stored in the restaurant's environmentally controlled cellar until coming to Iron Gate.
The score 94 for 2012 DRC Grands Echezeaux is from Burghound, Allen Meadows and this is the tasting note - A more deeply pitched and more complex nose also evidences plenty of floral influence on the gorgeously spicy red and black pinot fruit scents that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice. There is excellent volume and punch to the big-bodied, concentrated and brooding flavors that also brim with an abundance of dry extract, all wrapped in an intensely mineral-driven, explosive and strikingly persistent finish. What I find interesting is how such a big wine delivers this much power and muscle with no impression of weight or undue heaviness. As is usually the case at this early juncture, this is very tight, compact and linear and a wine that is going to need at least 18 to 20 years to reveal its full potential.