Sylvain Cathiard Grand cru, Romanée-St-Vivant

Domaine Sylvain Cathiard Romanée-Saint-Vivant stands as a definitive pinnacle of the Côte de Nuits, driving exceptional secondary-market activity for its chiselled, crystalline energy. Under Sébastien Cathiard’s precise direction, this iconic bottling refutes the heavier extracted approach often associated with top-tier Grand Crus. Cathiard’s holdings of RSV amount to just 0.16 hectares, making the Domaine the smallest of the ten owners. Sourced from ancient 1919-planted vines in the iron-rich clay of this legendary site, the 100% destemmed fruit and calculated fine-grained oak deliver a hyper-polished canvas where an intensely perfume-driven, multi-layered texture is pinned down by a piercing mineral spine, engineered for masterful long-term transformation.