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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  May 25, 2023 - A good colour and still fresh and youthful. There's plenty of sandalwood and Chinese 5 spice on the nose. It has a touch of earthiness and a core of black cherry fruit that intensifies with air. It has a luscious, creamy mid-palate and builds, fanning out on the finish. It has terrific acidity with a strong mineral imprint lingering once swallowed.

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• SimonG wrote: 91 points

  March 2, 2023 - David’s 1999 Cote de Nuits (Lorne, London): Gorgeous bright mid ruby to garnet. A richness without clumsiness. Again, served too warm to do it any favours but there a rich yet elegant wine underneath.****

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• Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 2, 2023 - David's 1999 Côtes de Nuits 1er Cru, Village by Village Horizontal (Lorne Restaurant, London): Deeper, darker and more brooding that the Engel. There is some polishes walnut dresser and cherry fruits. Palate shorter than one would hope.

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• Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 28, 2020 - This initially had me kicking myself for opening it because it was shrill and basically fruitless except for a hint of autumnal apples in the fashion of a wine over the hill or completely shut down. Fortunately it was the latter because two hours or so later it had really blossomed to the point where it wasn't just good, but a real beauty. It turned vividly red-fruited, plush, and velvety, the tannins mostly resolved with just the barest bit of the edginess the site sometimes exhibits left. For the most part this is full and generous in a way that's more like RSV or Suchots than the strictly structured way Chaumes and its neighbors tend to behave. But even as it went from fruitless to generous in the space of two hours, that's where it stopped and it's still a distant way from actual maturity. Ten more years at least.

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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  July 18, 2020 - Starting to drink very well but probably two decades away from its apogee. . Still deep and dense with ample structure and a concentrated core of black cherry. There's some undergrowth and purple flower perfume. It has real presence, building through the palate and fanning out on the finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Robert Arnoux / Arnoux-Lachaux
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Chaumes
• Country France
• Region Burgundy
• SubRegion Côte de Nuits
• Appellation Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru

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