Appellations
Grand Cru · Côte de Nuits
Romanée-Saint-Vivant
Vosne-Romanée · red · 9
The lowest of the block, nearest the village, and the most delicate.
Under the vines
Deeper soil at the foot of the slope, which usually means weight and here somehow does not.
In the glass
Lacy and floral with fine tannin; the most obviously perfumed of the Vosne grands crus.
Why it sits here
Named for the abbey of Saint-Vivant, which held it from the eleventh century.
Commonly misread
That lower always means broader. Romanée-Saint-Vivant sits lowest and is the finest-boned.
Names worth knowing
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Leroy, Sylvain Cathiard, Arnoux-Lachaux, Dujac