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Investment Tips - Burgundy - 28. July 2022
Available For Investment: Assortments Etc. From The Mighty Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
La Tache, Corton, Duvault-Blochet and several perfect assortments from the world's most prestigious and mythical Burgundy producer
The Wines Everyone Knows, But Only A Few Have Tasted
Looking back over the past 30-40 years, there is no doubt: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is the greatest, most famous, and most prestigious wine producer in the world. Competitors have claimed the throne from time to time, and while names such as Domaine Leroy and Domaine Armand Rousseau are indeed top tier producers, there is simply nothing that beats Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
The wines of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti are extremely in demand and in combination with a very limited production across the product portfolio, this creates an imbalance between supply and demand that historically has only been answered by increasing prices - and seen in a historical perspective, the wines of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti are some of the wines that have increased the most.
At the same time, the wines are strictly allocated by the producer, so national distributors, as an example, only get a few bottles of the flagship wine Romanée-Conti allocated on an annual basis. This only further underlines how difficult it is to obtain these wines - even if you are a happy, paying customer, with money to spend.
The wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti are the ones everyone wants, but few can obtain.
The ones everyone knows, but only a few have tasted.
Now you can ensure the opportunity to offer some lucky wine lovers just that in the future.
We now have the pleasure of offering several perfect assortments as well as whole cases of La Tache, Corton and Cuvée Duvault-Blochet, which you can learn more about below.
Note: Everything is sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Returns Across Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
There has been a tendency over the past many years for the highest returns to be found among the best, most expensive and rarest wines. In this perspective, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is certainly no exception.
The following gives an overview of how the different wines offered in this investment tip have performed in an overall perspective.
To give a representative picture of the price development across the wines that are available here, you get the average return and the average annual return over the last five years, across the latest 10 vintages of each wine that has been on the market for a minimum of five years.
This is how it looks:
| Wine | Romanée-Conti | La Tache | Corton | Echezeaux | Grands Echezeaux | Romanée St. Vivant | Richebourg | Duvault-Blochet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average return in the period | 99% | 144% | 189% | 201% | 207% | 214% | 220% | 196% |
| Average annual return over the period | 14,8% | 19,5% | 23,6% | 24,7% | 25,1% | 25,7% | 26,2% | 24,2% |
Available For Investment:
2002 DRC Vosne-Romanée Duvault-Blochet
In the 1930s, DRC released wine from younger grapes and the domain's second harvest in the good vintages - grapes that were not included in the primary wines and were usually just sold off to negociants, but in these vintages were considered too good to sell. The wines were labelled Cuvée Duvault-Blochet, named after the man who acquired the domain in 1879.
However, this tradition was taken up again from the outstanding 1999 vintage and has since been produced in the good vintages. Due to the character of the wine, the DRC has declassified it and therefore it has "only" the status of Premier Cru. But make no mistake - Cuvée Duvault-Blochet is a blend of grapes from all the DRC's red Grand Cru vineyards*, which is reflected in price, demand and, not least, historical returns.
Available For Investment:
2002 DRC Vosne-Romanée Cuvée Duvault-Blochet
BH: 92 WA: n/a VI: n/a
Total production: 13,028
OWC3 - 0,75L.
Price per bottle*: €3.250
Two cases available
*With the exception of Romanée-Conti
DRC La Tache
La Tache is the epitome of finesse from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. La Tache is located in Vosne-Romanée and is, along with La Romanée-Conti, something as exclusive as a Grand Cru monopole vineyard - that is, a vineyard with only one owner, which of course in itself has created enormous prestige worldwide.
La Tache is widely recognised as the most elegant of the seven great Grand Cru wines from the DRC, which is why many winemakers actually prefer it, even over some of the DRC's considerably more expensive wines.
Available For Investment:
2011 DRC La Tache
BH: 96 WA: 95 VI: 96+
Total production: 18.196 bottles
OWC3 - 0,75L.
Price per bottle*: €5.750
Only one case available
2012 DRC La Tache
BH: 97 WA: 97 VI: 97
Total production: 13.358
OWC3 - 0,75L.
Price per bottle*: €6,500
Only one case available
2011 DRC Corton
Corton is the only red Grand Cru produced by DRC in the Cote de Beaune. Aubert de Villaine, co-owner of DRC, has shown in a few years (the first vintage was 2009) how great red Corton can be. They work with a parcel of 2.3 hectares and, as with the rest of DRC's product portfolio, Corton is also characterised by high quality and production that does not match demand.
Available For Investment:
2011 DRC Corton Rouge
BH: 92 WA: 93 VI: 93
Total production: 5.523
OWC3 - 0,75L.
Price per bottle*: €2.750
Only one case available.
Various DRC Assortments
Assortments from DRC can be described as the ultimate tastings cases. Here you have the opportunity to acquire whole and perfect cases, made up of various of the domain's great wines.
Historically, there have been many different combinations of these assortments, so there is no "right" or "classic" assortment as such.
Assortments offer the investor a unique opportunity to buy into the case of more than just one DRC wine at a time, and at the same time have them assembled in one perfect case - cases that due to their character and mixed content have an extremely broad appeal to both private wine connoisseurs and lovers, as well as the professional merchants of the wine world - something that speaks in favour of the investor.
Available For Investment:
2009 DRC Assortment
OWC4 - 0,75L
Total price: €19.000
Only one case available.
The case consists of:
1 x Echezeaux
BH: 90 WA: 94 VI: 91+
Total production: 18.589
1 x Grands Echezeaux
BH: 95 WA: 95 VI:96
Total production: 12.471
1 x Richebourg
BH: 97 WA: 97 VI:97+
Total production: 15.742
1 x La Tache
BH: 98 WA: 98 VI:98
Total production: 21.939
2012 DRC Assortment
OWC10 - 0.75L.
Total price: €53.000*
Only one case available.
The case consists of:
1 x 2012 Romanée-Conti
BH: 98 WA: 99 VI:98
Total production: 4.203
1 x 2012 La Tache
BH: 97 WA: 97 VI:97
Total production: 13,358
1 x 2012 Richebourg
BH: 96 WA: 97 VI:96+
Total production: 7.610
2 x 2012 Romanée St. Vivant
BH: 95 WA: 96 VI:97+
Total production: 13.781
2 x 2012 Grands Echezeux
BH: 94 WA: 95 VI:95
Total production: 12.471
3 x 2012 Echezeaux
BH: 93 WA: 92 VI:94
Total production: 11.847
2013 DRC Assortment
OWC8 - 0.75L.
Total price: €45.000*
Only one case available
The case consists of:
1 x 2013 Romanée-Conti
BH: 96 WA: 97 VI:97+
Total production: 3.903
1 x 2013 La Tache
BH: 95 WA: 97 VI:97+
Total production: 12,677
1 x 2013 Romanée St. Vivant
BH: 93 WA: 95 VI:(94-97)
Total production: 10.459
2 x 2013 Richebourg
BH: 94 WA: 96 VI:95+
Total production: 6.809
2 x 2013 Grands Echezeaux
BH: 93 WA: 93 VI:94
Total production: 9,586
1 x 2013 Corton
BH: 92 WA: 90 VI:92
Total production: 5.686
2016 DRC Assortment
OWC9 - 0.75L.
Total price: €62.000*
Only one case available
The case consists of:
1 x 2016 Romanée-Conti
BH: 99+ WA: 100 VI:98
Total production: 5.281
2 x 2016 Romanée St. Vivant
BH: 95 WA: 95 VI: n/a
Total production: 15.657
2 x 2016 Richebourg
BH: 96 WA: 97 VI:95
Total production: 10.418
3 x 2016 La Tache
BH: 98 WA: 98 VI:98
Total production: 21,770
1 x 2016 Corton
BH: 94 WA: 94 VI:92
Total production: 5,047
The wines are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact us via the form at the bottom to learn more about your options.
*All prices are in EUR ex. customs duty, tax, and VAT for delivery to a bonded warehouse. Prices including customs duty, tax and VAT can be sent on request. The wines are only sold in whole cases unless otherwise specified and the price is per bottle. Minimum order size € 2,500. Assumes a total minimum investment of € 10,000. Prices may have changed since release of this article. Reservations are made for errors.