2014 Domaine Robert Arnoux / Arnoux-Lachaux Clos Vougeot

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  3/16/2024 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Decanted 1 hour. Pronounced nose intensity with notes of sweet plum, red and black fruits, spices, toast. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Long finish.

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  4/5/2022 - WaiCellar wrote: 91 Points

  Very fruity and intense flavours. Almost a Bordeaux like bouquet. Well made but I feel that it’s a bit overpriced…

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  3/1/2022 - rc@ughey wrote: 93 Points

  As I understand it, this is on the early end of A-L's transition to the Charles Lachaux era. The fruit here is fairly intense and the balance is good, but this really needs a lot of time. A bit shut down and became more so as the night progressed. Certainly enjoyable but didn't make quite the same impression as the three wines above.

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  9/26/2020 - vide Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A very dense, compact ("reduced") wine. Broodingly dark in the glass; nose of dark fruit (black cherry?), wood and muted spice. It was initially open but has now after three hours closed down, becoming solid and actually rather formidable; the taste is going through the same transformation. Texture and weight have now completely taken over from flavour (bye-bye black cherries, or whatever you were), and the colour is virtually black.
  
  A truly unusual, transmorphic wine (and as I go back to it now, it has changed yet again, the nose regaining a little of the perfume it began with a while ago). This is a wine that is pushing my capacity for description and appropriate terminology, but is one of great quality.
  I suspect it will not reveal its Delphic secrets until tomorrow. Or possibly it will not reveal anything at all until another bottle is opened in 2030.
  
  p.s. I initially sent down these notes thinking I was drinking 2014 Marchand Tawse. Apologies to all concerned

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  7/15/2019 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Terroir-istes International - France, Burgundy, Vougeot (Overgaauw Wine Estate): (Tasted Blind): A medium to dark garnet colour towards a brown rim. Complex bouquet with undergrowth, violets, red fruit, blackberry, and rose petals.
  It is a racy, acidic entry that is dry with some charry oak and juicy black cherries, blackberries, tobacco, and an earthy, clay-like feel. Dense and thick with chewy tannins, the wine has grip, solidity yet poise, remaining full-bodied, if a little foursquare. Complex, with depth, some felt the charr-y oak spoilt the wine. While there are some coffee grinds and a bit of extract, there are enough dark fruit and chocolate to counteract and balance the wine as well as juiciness. There is, however, a touch of geranium on the finish, which is a negative.
  70% new oak.

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