Louis Latour Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru Les Quatre Journaux

Red
France
Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru
Pinot Noir

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 22
Community notes: 165
Merchant offers: 161

What we know about this wine

Critics: 94/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers: 88/ 100165 notes, every vintage
Market price: £440per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2013–2026drinking2009 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 77 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Burgundy Côte de Nuits Red.

Body3.1 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.1 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin2.7 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.2 / 5: DrySweet

Red fruit · raspberry, cherry, red cherry, red fruit, strawberry
Earth · mushroom, forest floor, earthy, iron, truffle
Oak · tobacco, butter, cigar box, clove, cola
Spice · licorice, cinnamon, anise, pepper, menthol
Black fruit · black cherry, black fruit, blackcurrant, blackberry, plum
Floral · perfume, rose petal, violet

Grapes: Pinot Noir. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£218–£395Shop asks£334–£440GBP per 75 cl · 12 priced vintages

1999One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Drinkinginside its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2016; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2009; drinking, window 2013–2026
Lowest price: 2013; £218 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru Les Quatre Journaux monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 5 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru Les Quatre Journaux monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£440	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2020	£393	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
2019	£395	97	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
2018	£296	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020
2017	£334	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2016	£262	98.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, December 2024
2015	£300	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2014	£254	94.2	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2013	£218	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
2012	£326	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
2011	£249	91.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2023
1999	£242	92	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021

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