2020 La Grande Rue
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Tasting Notes
Lamarche’s iconic monopole is a narrow 1.65-hectare plot across the road from the Romanées. Nicole Lamarche has a magical touch in the winery, and this was unsurprisingly extraordinary in 2020. It’s a wine one could smell forever, so pretty that it stops you in your tracks. It offers remarkable delicacy with a texture like the finest silk. Remarkable minerality is woven between dainty red-berry fruit and fine florals, with remarkably finessed, barely-there tannins. There is, as Nicole says, “un côté mystique” to the wine. It shifts in the glass endlessly – ethereal and with an eternal finish. Extraordinary.
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Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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Medium deep crimson purple. The nose starts discreetly and then starts to show its paces. Then the elegance, hard to specify the individual notes. Slightly more floral, while those characteristic little orange blossom notes appear only on the palate adding a slight youthful bitterness. The length and the texture are impeccable. A mix of roses and the lightest of red fruits. Poised and balanced, the wine which Nicole wants to make.
About the producer
Today run by the fourth-generation Nicole Lamarche, this property (previously known as Domaine François Lamarche) is firmly among the best in Burgundy. The Vosne-Romanée estate is most famous for its monopole Grand Cru La Grande Rue.