The 1990 Romanee - Conti should ultimately be the most compelling and complex

of the DRC wines. Normally it possesses a lighter color than either La

Tache or Richebourg, but in 1990 it boasts a surprisingly saturated color that is

the equal of La Tache and Richebourg. The nose offers up sweet, clove, cinnamon,

and blackberry aromas intermingled with toasty, smoky new oak. Lavishly

rich and full - bodied, with abundant tannins, this profound, surprisingly large

- scaled, tannic wine boasts more muscle than usual. Let’s hope that the billionaires

that buy it have as much taste as money. /RP /Oct 1992