Gross!

Hautes Ctes de Nuits (and de Beaune) is in the hills behind the main Cte d'Or vineyards. They are higher up and often more exposed to the wind. In general, the wines need a hot vintage to do something interesting -- especially for the reds.
Check this out.

Cte de Nuits-Villages, which now has the alternative designation Vins Fins de la Cte de Nuits (how's that for thinking up a snazzy, misleading name?), is exclusively from grapes grown in the villages of Fixin, Brochon, Premeaux, Comblanchien, Corgoloin, i.e., at the extreme southern end and at the northern (but not farthest north) end of the Cte de Nuits. Check this out. (Jadot's Cte de Nuits-Villages "Le Vaucrain" comes from a vineyard adjacent to Mugnier's Nuits-Clos de la Marchale.)

Cte de Beaune and Cte de Beaune-Villages are something else and not parallel to Cte de Nuits-Villages. But that's a story for another day.
 
Aieeee! URL madness!

Use the FAQ's fine method for mashing those down into a link, or tinyurl, or something!
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
C'mon, when you bought it, you must have known or at least suspected that it wasn't being competitively priced and that the label was on there just to get you to spend more than you otherwise would have. . . . And it worked.
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You're correct. I had never had anything from the Domaine de la Romane Conti, and I put out that price to see. Matchstick girl that I was.
 
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