Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC) is co-owned by the de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families. It farms about 28 hectares of grand cru vineyard in Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Échezeaux and the Côte de Beaune: the monopoles Romanée-Conti (1.81 ha) and La Tâche (6.06 ha), plus Richebourg, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Grands Échezeaux, Échezeaux, Corton (leased from 2009) and Montrachet. The domaine publishes bottle counts per wine per vintage in its release documents; Romanée-Conti runs at about 5,000–6,000 bottles.

Founded: 1869
Region: Burgundy
Ownership: de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families (civil company)
Vineyard: 28.0 ha69 ac

Wines

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, La Tâche Grand Cru, vintage by vintage

One square for each year. The darker the square, the better the weather was for the grapes. Tap a year to read about it.

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995

ExceptionalExcellentVery goodGoodMixedDifficult

The essentials

Economic profile

DRC is the purest scarcity economy in wine. Total production across all its wines is in the low tens of thousands of bottles — less than a single Bordeaux first growth's grand vin — and allocation prices are set far below secondary-market prices, so the secondary market, not the domaine, sets the price of a bottle. Its vineyards, inherited and never bought at market, carry an imputed land value that would make the domaine unviable if it had to service it: on SAFER's grand cru averages the 28 hectares would be worth well over €150 million, against wine sales at release prices a small fraction of that per year.

Deep dive

Market history

DRC led the Burgundy boom from 2010 and the correction from 2022. Auction prices for Romanée-Conti reached the tens of thousands of dollars a bottle; a 1945 sold for $558,000 at Sotheby's in 2018, a record for a standard bottle at the time. The 2023–2025 fall in Burgundy prices hit DRC's younger vintages hardest, a reminder that thin markets fall as fast as they rise.

The detailsClassification, ownership, land and output

Founded

1869Duvault-Blochet purchase of Romanée-Conti, 1869; domaine in its modern form from 1942

Classification

Grands crus (Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Échezeaux, Corton, Montrachet)

Ownership

de Villaine and Leroy/Roch families (civil company) (family)

Vineyard holdings

28.0 ha (69 ac)≈ 28 ha of grands crus including the Corton lease

First vintage made

1869

Website

romanee-conti.fr/

Monopoles

Romanée-Conti (1.81 ha), La Tâche (6.06 ha)DRC

Farming

Biodynamic; horses in Romanée-Conti

Sales

Allocation in mixed cases through importers

We estimate it costs about $48 to $283 to make one bottle at an estate like this. See the full breakdown

Land-value contextWhat a hectare of vineyard sells for around here

Input	Low	High	Unit	Source
Vineyard land, Bourgogne regional2024	30,000	107,000	EUR/ha	SAFER 2024
Vineyard land, Côte d'Or premier cru2024	1,040,000	2,550,000	EUR/ha	SAFER 2024
Vineyard land, Côte d'Or village2024	900,000	1,050,000	EUR/ha	SAFER 2024
Vineyard land, Côte de Nuits grand cru2019	4,000,000	12,000,000	EUR/ha	SAFER

Every wine in a tableBottles made, years covered and how hard each is to find

Wine	Bottles made in a typical year	Vintages covered	Great years	How rare (0–100)
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, La Tâche Grand CruGrand cru monopole · Vosne-Romanée	19,000	29 1995–2023	10	72
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Richebourg Grand CruGrand cru · Vosne-Romanée	12,000	24 2000–2023	9	78
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Romanée-Conti Grand CruGrand cru monopole · Vosne-Romanée	5,500	29 1995–2023	10	90

Every year in a tableDomaine de la Romanée-Conti, La Tâche Grand Cru: How each year was rated, and the price the producer first asked

Vintage	How the year was rated	Release price	How rare (0–100)	The growing season
2023	Very Good	—	67
2022	Excellent	—	67
2021	Difficult	—	68	The 6–8 April frost destroyed much of the crop; the smallest Burgundy harvest in decades.
2020	Excellent	—	68
2019	Exceptional	—	68	Hot, dry summer with low yields; concentrated wines released into the 2021–22 peak.
2018	Excellent	—	69
2017	Very Good	—	69
2016	Very Good	—	70	April frost cut some Côte de Beaune producers' crops by more than half; very small…
2015	Exceptional	—	70	Warm, dry summer; ripe, concentrated reds widely rated as a great vintage.
2014	Very Good	—	71
2013	Good	—	71
2012	Very Good	—	72
2011	Good	—	72
2010	Excellent	—	72
2009	Excellent	—	72
2008	Very Good	—	73
2007	Good	—	73
2006	Good	—	73
2005	Exceptional	—	73
2004	Mixed	—	74
2003	Mixed	—	74
2002	Excellent	—	74
2001	Good	—	74
2000	Good	—	74
1999	Excellent	—	75
1998	Good	—	75
1997	Good	—	75
1996	Very Good	—	75
1995	Very Good	—	76