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Neal Martin

Vinous

The 2018 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru has a delicate and understated bouquet, a little subdued at first, opening with brambly red fruit, sous-bois and desiccated orange peel scents. The aromatics are pretty, elegant and almost unassuming. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, quite strict and surprisingly linear. A bit of chewiness and it has a very tight-fisted finish that maybe time will unclench? I hope so. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 red tasting. 11/2022

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Jasper Morris

Inside Burgundy

Bright purple, vigorous, thrilling pure fruit bouquet. No sign of the vintage at first though becomes a little sweatier afterwards. Soft red sun-baked fruit. Firm on the palate, though at least partly through intensity. Finishes very much red rather than black. At one point I found this a fraction undernourished before the wine started to open out and gain more detail. Drink from 2033. Tasted Sep 2022.

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William Kelley

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate

The most backward cuvée in the cellar when I visited was the 2018 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, a rich and muscular wine that unwinds to reveal notions of cherries, cassis and berries mingled with nuances of exotic spice and new oak. On the palate, it's full-bodied, fleshy and structured, with refined but youthfully assertive tannins. A wine of considerable presence, this will need its remaining élevage to round out, but it's very promising. 01/2020