Like his Nuits from the Corvees Pagets, Lachaux's 2006 Vosne Romanee Les Chaumes exhibits unusual sheer density for its vintage, allied to refined texture and a sense of energy, fluidity, and sheer primary fruit...
Like his Nuits from the Corvees Pagets, Lachaux's 2006 Vosne Romanee Les Chaumes exhibits unusual sheer density for its vintage, allied to refined texture and a sense of energy, fluidity, and sheer primary fruit juiciness. Bittersweet black fruits, flowers, and herbal concentrates – as well as their high-toned, distillate-like aromatic counterparts – mingle with smoked meat and focus to a strikingly piquant point in the finish, yet the wine's bitter and chalky elements do not drive it into austerity thanks to its clear, pure fruit vivacity that leaves your palate feeling cleansed and invigorated. I would wait a few years to revisit this and count on a dozen or more of very active life. - David Schildknecht