🏰 The 1989 vintage for 布根地 (Burgundy) was very good, characterized by a mild winter, a mild spring, a cold April and May (with frost and hail), a cool June, and a hot, dry July. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's 1989 Echézeaux is noted for maturing faster and being less complex than other Domaine wines, opening before others with a delightful clarity of expression. It possesses a seductive tenderness overlaying a firm structure, allowing it to evolve with elegance. This wine is surprisingly big-scale for a DRC Echézeaux. It presents a dark faded purple colour with medium concentration. The nose offers discreet, reserved, and subtle Vosne spice aromas, along with sous bois, earth, soy, tea, and dark fruit. It is the epitome of "exotic spice," with a slightly stewed intense red fruits, tomato, cherry, strawberry rhubarb pie, a hint of Asian spice, sautéed mushroom, and earth. On the palate, it exhibits excellent concentration, beautifully layered fruits, and a dense sweet and sour stewed red fruit-driven impression. It has a strong earthy impression, bright acidity, nicely integrated tannins, and a lovely long finish. While the palate is better than the nose, it can be a bit too savoury for a DRC. It is closed, slightly tough, and still quite structured, almost hard, offering good depth. It is dark, elegant, poised, youthful, and a little brooding. 🥂 For the patient and optimistic, this wine appears to be in a time warp, having seemingly not evolved much in five years, but it has the potential to age for another 5-10-20 years or more. It is a wine to be savoured and not rushed. 🍴 It pairs excellently with duck, goose, and other game birds. 【A surprisingly big-scale DRC Echézeaux with excellent concentration and layered red fruits, evolving with seductive tenderness and firm structure】