Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, 1995 (1.5L) champagne-club almost creamy mid-palate

almost creamy mid-palate

This was the very first vintage of the project: in 2003 Luca Roagna began buying grapes from an old contadino farming a parcel of white-limestone marl planted to ancient vines in Vigna Rionda

mineral-laced finish

this Griottes-Chambertin has the structure and depth to evolve gracefully over the next 15–20 years

Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, 1995 (1.5L) champagne-club almost creamy mid-palateA magnum of Romanee Saint Vivant with three decades in the cellar grand cru Vosne from the band of hillside directly below Romanee Conti and Richebourg. The bottle predates the name on the label: in 1995 this was still Domaine Robert Arnoux, with Pascal Lachaux Robert's son in law, and a homeopathic pharmacist before he was a winemaker taking charge of the cellar that very year, after Robert Arnoux died in February, long before his son Charles turned