A 1983 DRC Montrachet at La Paulée de New York was impressively rich, forceful, and almost youthful. On the nose, the wine began with ripe passionfruit and honey and then opened from there with layers of lemon peel, smoke, mineral, and a hint of truffle. Although the wine was 30 years old, the development was restrained, and the complexity was astounding. The wine is full-bodied and luscious, with a rich, almost sweet feel on the palate and an exquisitely long finish. This wine drinks well now, but I have no doubt this will continue to age well for at least another decade.

This is a sensational wine with a rich yet youthful fragrance, long, deep flavor, and plenty of body. The 1983 vintage for Domaine de la Romanee-Conti was a very tough year. First there was hail, then the advent of rot in August thanks to the tropical heat and humidity. When the harvest occurred, the domaine instructed its pickers to pick the grapes, not the grape bunches, by hand and to discard all of the rotten grapes. The results are splendidly concentrated, rich wines, but wines that are extremely expensive and need at least a decade of cellaring.