Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux Nuits-St-Georges 2019
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Jasper Morris
Fine bright but relatively translucent purple. Here the bouquet is notably fresher than the Bourgogne, on the cusp of red and black, with the wonderful bouquet of garriguette strawberries (the way they were before producers began developing much larger and less tasty ones). Joyously juicy with grace and energy and just a few tannins, before the vanillin from the oak makes a late appearance.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges Village is pretty and delicate, unwinding in the glass with aromas of raspberries, orange rind, cinnamon, potpourri and woodsmoke. Medium to full-bodied, supple and layered, it's seamless and refined, with melting tannins, lively acids and a long, perfumed finish. Best After 2021
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Robert
Parker
Earlier in the year, the Bowler team tasted the 2014’s from barrel with Charles’s father, Pascal – who is still very much present in the winery. It was unanimously a highlight of our trip in 2016. We’ve always been impressed when tasting at Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux. After all, they have some of the most prized vineyards in Vosne-Romanee and equally high-quality vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges.
It's no doubt that Pascal Lachaux must have gone through the same pressure when he took over from his father-in-law, Robert Arnoux, in the early nineties. Pascal worked side-by-side with Robert for more than ten years. The changes that Pascal made in the nineties were a natural progression at the time: pruning for lower yields, working the soil, destemming grapes 100%, and using more new oak for aging. The reputation of Domaine Robert Arnoux soared with Pascal Lachaux at the reigns. In 2010, Remington Norman and Charles Taylor MW said, “This is one of the very best domaines of an exceptional village.”
Charles Lachaux gives an immense amount of credit to his father for the work that he has done over the last thirty years. He said that if he has elevated the wines to a new level today, it is thanks to the health of the vineyards and the organization of the winery when he started in 2012.