La Tâche
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, wild mushroom risotto, roasted venison
✨ Technical Specifications
La Tâche is one of the world's most legendary Grand Cru vineyards, held as a monopole by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Spanning just over six hectares in the heart of Vosne-Romanée, its history is rich with intrigue, notably the 1932 legal decision that officially integrated the finest parts of the adjacent Les Gaudichots vineyard into La Tâche. The name itself, meaning 'the task,' evokes the medieval tradition of paying vineyard laborers by the specific plot or chore completed. Renowned for its extraordinary consistency across vintages, La Tâche is celebrated for its dramatic intensity, offering a kaleidoscope of dark fruits, exotic spices, and forest floor. It is crafted entirely from Pinot Noir, farmed biodynamically, and aged in 100% new French oak casks to create a wine of unparalleled structure, velvety texture, and aristocratic longevity.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti stands as the quintessential summit of fine Burgundy. While monastic cultivation on these Vosne-Romanée slopes traces back to the thirteenth century, the modern estate was consolidated in 1869 when Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet acquired the revered Romanée-Conti parcel. Today, co-owned by the de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families and steered by Bertrand de Villaine and Perrine Fenal, the domaine encompasses roughly 28 hectares devoted almost entirely to Grand Crus. Rooted in iron-rich Bajocian limestone and nutrient-dense clay marls, the vineyards benefit from gentle east-facing inclinations and dedicated horse-plowed cultivation. Having implemented organic methods since 1986 and achieving full biodynamic certification in the 2000s, DRC emphasizes microscopic yields, rigorous massale selection, and whole-cluster native yeast fermentation. Maturation in custom new French oak yields wines of supernatural depth, precision, and longevity. Benchmark cuvées—above all the monopoles Romanée-Conti and La Tâche, alongside Richebourg, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Grands Échezeaux, and Échezeaux—embody pure aromatic nuance and timeless, aristocratic grace.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
13% - 13.5%