La Tâche (“The Task”) is a “Grand Cru” Pinot Noir vineyard of 12.4 acres – about the size of eight football pitches.

The vineyard is in Vosne-Romanée, a village in the Côte de Nuits region of Burgundy, and is owned solely by Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.

La Tâche borders La Grande Rue to the north and various Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru vineyards to the east, south and west.

My former colleague Anthony Hanson (Master of Wine) wrote of this great red wine that “La Tâche is rarely other than spectacular and fascinating”.

In 1975, La Tâche’s vines were 27 years’ old, having been replanted in 1948.

The 1975 harvest was two-thirds that of 1974 (24,210 bottles of La Tâche produced) and half the size of the 1973 vintage (32,280).

The consecutive small crops caused an imbalance between demand and supply that inevitably led to price increases.

The March 1976 “Vintage and Market Report” by Maison Sichel said that, with adequate stock from previous years available and some currencies having been devalued, it was a “good time to shop for Burgundy.”

Our 1975 La Tâche came from an East Yorkshire cellar and has been demonstrably stored in a cool, damp cellar (as it’s supposed to be).

As far as we can tell, there are only four bottles of this wine currently available globally (of 17,556 produced).