Red Wine: 2017 | Cathiard | Romanee St Vivant

One of the wines of the vintage, the 2017 Romane-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru unfurls in the glass with a stunning bouquet of plums, raspberries, dark chocolate, Asian spice, rose petals and rich soil tones. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, enveloping and multidimensional, with stunning concentration and depth at the core, its ample chassis of fine, satiny tannins entirely cloaked in succulent fruit, its finish long and delineated.

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Producer: Cathiard

Ratings: D | 96 BH | 93-96

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

One of the wines of the vintage, the 2017 Romane-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru unfurls in the glass with a stunning bouquet of plums, raspberries, dark chocolate, Asian spice, rose petals and rich soil tones. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, enveloping and multidimensional, with stunning concentration and depth at the core, its ample chassis of fine, satiny tannins entirely cloaked in succulent fruit, its finish long and delineated.

Reviews:

• Decanter: There isn’t much of this grand cru to go around, alas, as the Cathiard parcel is a mere 0.17ha. But what a wine it is: plush yet refined, with scented oak, plenty of depth and spice, subtle reduction and layered bramble and black cherry fruit. Fresh and alluring.

• Burghound: An exuberantly fresh if restrained nose offers up a panoply of spice elements to the primarily red berry fruit aromas that display additional breadth with hints of orange pekoe tea, lavender and a whisper of sandalwood. The lacy yet concentrated middle weight flavors possess a highly refined mouthfeel and first-rate complexity on the balanced and wonderfully persistent if youthfully austere finish. Like the Malconsorts, this is gorgeous but it is also very clearly built for long-term cellaring.

Producer Information

Sylvain Cathiards grandfather, a foundling from Savoie, came to Burgundy and found work with Domaine de la Romane Conti (DRC) and Lamarche, subsequently buying a few parcels of vineyards for himself. His son Andr Cathiard began to bottle some of the crop. In due course Sylvain began work with his father but then separated to start his own small domaine, until on his fathers retirement in 1995, Sylvain could take back the family vineyards on a renting agreement. He has now been joined by his son Sbastien, and a spacious new cellar is currently under construction. The Cathiards have 5.5 hectares of vineyards in Vosne-Romane, Nuits-St-Georges and Chambolle-Musigny, including tiny holdings in Clos de Vougeot and Romane-St-Vivant. A recent addition (from 2006) to the range is the Nuits-St-Georges Aux Thorey. This is not a complicated domaine: the vines are looked after meticulously with the fruit being sorted on a table de tri and destalked. After fermentation the wines go into barrel, with 50 per cent new oak for the village wines and 100 per cent for premier cru and above. Most of the barrels come from one cooper, Rmond, albeit with the wood sourced from different forests. The wines in their youth have an exceptional energy and purity of fruit.