2017 Romanée Saint-Vivant Grand Cru Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux

The domaine must wish it owned more than one-third of a hectare within this fabulous grand cru, located very close to the village of Vosne. Moreover, the vines here are almost 100 years old. Initially reserved, the cherry and raspberry aromas open up with aeration to show both juiciness and lift. The velvety texture makes the immense concentration seem less excessive, and it's mouthfilling and succulent, with fine depth of flavour and impressive length. Drinking Window 2024 - 2040 .

Lovely fresh dense purple. Gorgeous supple dense fruit, hedonistic, inky, clearly fully ripe, yet then gloriously sensual and spicy at the same time, a little touch of velvet en plus, magical aftertaste. I could expand this note but I think the message should be clear. Tasted: November 2018.

The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is a brilliant wine, wafting from the glass with a complex and alluring bouquet of cherries, red berries, rose petal, blood orange and Asian spices. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny and multidimensional, with a lovely sense of completeness, succulent acids and a deep and concentrated core of fruit, concluding with a long and sapid finish. Elegant and compellingly complex, the Romanée-Saint-Vivant is the king of the cellar this year.

The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is 100% whole bunches, matured in 25% new oak. The disarmingly pure bouquet features an extraordinary pure floral perfume, violet and iris intermingling, and mainly red fruit but with veins of blue. The palate is silky-smooth with fine-grained tannin, hints of dark chocolate infusing the dark berry fruit, and perhaps even a hint of salted licorice toward a finish that fans out with self-assurance. This is going to be utterly sublime. 2023 - 2050 .