2015 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux

A strikingly fresh, cool and highly restrained nose features notes of ripe red currants, floral, earth and hints of wood and the sauvage. There is equally good freshness and intensity to the vibrant and tightly coiled mineral-driven flavors that exhibit outstanding delineation on the taut, persistent and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is at present not especially complex but my range offers the benefit of the doubt that more will develop as this will need an extended amount of bottle age and thus there is plenty of time for additional complexity to arise.

The 2015 Latricières- Chambertin Grand Cru is one of the more aromatically reticent wines in the range, opening in the glass with notes of coniferous forest floor, raspberry and currant leaf. On the palate, the wine is supple, silky and expansive, with a deep and sapid core of fruit, bright acids, and fine-grained, chalky tannins which assert themselves on the finish. This will need time, but the raw materials are promising. 2025 - 2060.