Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, 1995 (1.5L) champagne-club which lends a touch of

which lends a touch of red-fruited elegance to the firmer

The Underwood family planted roughly eleven acres of Pinot here across six clones

thanks to 22 months in used tonneaux

Michel Turgy is Le Mesnil's quietly outstanding grower

Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, 1995 (1.5L) champagne-club which lends a touch ofA 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