2019 Côte de Nuits

Aux Réas is an excellent village lieu dit that a number of growers choose to bottle separately. It sits at the southern end of the village, and its wines can offer some of neighbouring Nuits’ structure and firmness, with the supple, rippling fruit of classical Vosne.

This vineyard is at the north end of the village, on the border with Mazoyères-Chambertin. The soils are high in limestone, and produce a wine that is rich in dark wild berries and clove spice. It has an intensity and volumes that will unfurl with time.

Sweet-fruited, red berries, with some rounded silky tannins and the vintage’s signature freshness on the finish.

This is a stand-out in the Arlaud cellar in 2019, with suave red fruit, blood orange,and mineral structure. The 40 year old vines in the Clos de la Roche have really performed in 2019. This should have a long life ahead of it.

This comes from the very highest point of the Mazoyères section of Charmes. It has such fine powdery tannins, wrapped in cool red fruit. The power and weight of the grand cru build across the palate.