A Guide to DRC's Seven Red Grand Crus: Romanée-Conti to Corton

A group photograph is used only for the initial count; transcribe each wine name letter for letter from the bottle's front label.

Romanée-Conti

Retain the accents, Monopole designation, vintage, bottle size and bottle number; do not reduce it to the estate name.

La Tâche

Create a separate Monopole wine card. If an attachment says only DRC plus the vintage, the full wine name must still be verified.

Richebourg

Link to the estate's individual wine page, and keep official background information separate from the condition of the bottle in front of you.

Romanée-Saint-Vivant

Write the hyphen and Saint-Vivant in full so that searches do not merge it with Romanée-Conti.

Grands Échezeaux

“Grands” is part of the wine's name and must not be removed and treated as Échezeaux.

Échezeaux

Give it a separate identity card from the preceding wine. Even when the vintage is the same, they must not share a front-label image, bottle number or document.

Corton

First transcribe the climat or version wording shown on the front label; do not apply information about the same estate's holdings around Vosne-Romanée.

The file name points to Romanée-Conti 2017. Once the front label has been read clearly, map only that wine and that vintage; it does not mean that all seven wines were photographed.

Why Corton needs a separate geography field

Name verification for the first six wines is concentrated in the Côte de Nuits. Corton requires a separate record of its appellation and the parcel wording on the front label. This is a difference in the data route, not a judgement of quality. Give every card four fields: “estate public information”, “text legible on the bottle”, “visible condition” and “provenance attachments”. The official website can confirm the wine's identity and the estate's own account; it cannot confirm the actual provenance, the interior of the closure or the storage history of an individual bottle.