Arnoux Lachaux Latricieres Chambertin Grand Cru 2012 -OC6

Arnoux Lachaux Latricieres Chambertin Grand Cru 2012 -OC6Like the Reignots this is closed and brooding at present though aggressive swirling grudgingly liberates cool, pure and airy red berry fruit scents along with a profusion of floral elements that are also trimmed in a discreet application of wood. There is a lovely sense of energy and underlying tension to the intensely mineral driven, focused, precise and driving medium bodied flavors that culminate in a moderately austere and gorgeously sustained

red and dark currant scents

There is fine concentration to the relatively powerful sappy and mouth coating flavors that are shaped by wonderfully fine-grained tannins on the hugely long

spice and pure red and dark berries

The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard

a touch of mulberry and spice

blackberry and blueberry fruit

Here the equally brooding nose is slightly more elegant with its cool and restrained nose of red currant

elegant and bright floral-suffused nose features notes of cool blue pinot fruit

The oak is completely obscured by the lavish

A discreet touch of wood frames the impressively complex plum

weight and power to the medium weight plus flavors that brim with mouth coating dry extract that buffers well the firm tannic spine on the strikingly long finish

firm and lingering finish