La Romanée

"[3] The soil structure is similar to Romanée-Conti, a fine sand-clay mixture "feeble in the sand fraction, mixed with pebbles, based on a friable Prémeaux limestone.

[4] Thierry Mantoux describes it as: "Very elegant ... fleshy ... very persistent, aromatic with the aromas of cherry, black berries (like blackcurrant or blackberry), spices and undergrowth.

"[5] Remington Norman & Charles Taylor state: "La Romanée is powerful yet delicate with fine depth, silky tannins and a long finish"[6] Camille Rodier has claimed, "La Romanée is a little more full bodied and more virile than Romanée-Conti but with the same supreme elegance"[7] In 2008, 0.845 hectares (2.09 acres) of vineyard surface was in production within the AOC, and 28 hectoliters of wine were produced,[8] corresponding to around 3,700 bottles.

It was originally composed of six small parcels, whose area varied from one ouvrée to one journal situated in the vineyard or place-name Aux Echanges ... the declaration of the property of Saint-Vivant in 1512 says of it: 'belonging to Monsieur de Fangey ... and to several others.

[11] The Forey family tended the vines and made the wine till 1991, when following the death of the owner, the Canon Just, Louis-Michel Liger-Belair gradually took over the management of the domain.