Romanée-Conti is the home of the world’s most expensive wine: a holy land for purple-mouthed pilgrims that is shrouded in fog, mystery – and scandal
Romanée-Conti is the home of the world’s most expensive wine: a holy land for purple-mouthed pilgrims that is shrouded in fog, mystery – and scandal
‘Many people come to visit this site and we understand’. That’s what the sign says, but to explain where I am doesn’t immediately lend itself to such a belief. I’m among a vast sloping patchwork of vineyards. Vineyards as far as you can see. A narrow road leads up from a modest church protruding from a cluster of buildings that could only very generously be called a village. At an unremarkable T-junction, a centuries-old, lichen-flecked stone cross rises from a low boundary wall, the only thing resembling a landmark in this area. To its right, a single limestone brick is etched, in an austere serif font, along with the words ‘Romanée Conti’.
‘Many people come to visit this site and we understand’. That’s what the sign says, but to explain where I am doesn’t immediately lend itself to such a belief. I’m among a vast sloping patchwork of vineyards. Vineyards as far as you can see. A narrow road leads up from a modest church protruding from a cluster of buildings that could only very generously be called a village. At an unremarkable T-junction, a centuries-old, lichen-flecked stone cross rises from a low boundary wall, the only thing resembling a landmark in this area. To its right, a single limestone brick is etched, in an austere serif font, along with the words ‘Romanée Conti’.
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