1998 Domaine Robert Arnoux / Arnoux-Lachaux Romanée St. Vivant

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  12/21/2018 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points

  Beautiful nose, followed by a dark fruit and earthy body. Gained in transparancy. Great effort for the vintage.

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  11/4/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points

  Burgundy Dinner with Friends (The Blanchard - Chicago IL): Great nose of red cherry with baking spice. Similar flavors, subdued to start, more robust after 2 hours in glass. Kept getting better, longer with more air.

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  7/23/2016 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Beautiful nose of red fruit, citrus, and flowers. Palate was smooth was good acidity and tart fruit. Some prunes and plums started to emerge towards the end of a 3 hour session. Palate is medium plus.

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  11/20/2015 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Shared by friends from another table at Nicolas. Arnoux’s Romanee St-Vivant is always amongst the benchmark wines for the vineyard vintage-in and vintage-out, and this was no exception. It had a beautiful nose, with shades of orange peel, lots of lifted wood spice notes - cloves, cinnamon and sandalwood – and a drift of dried flowers, all floating above a core of sweet dark cherries and plum aromas. An absolutely gorgeous bouquet. At first, I thought this had just that extra woodiness amongst its spicy scents that betrayed the 1998 vintage when tasted blind. The palate caused some pause though – it was an absolutely dense mouthful, with a lovely sweet glow of sappy cherries and juicy plums showing a wonderful depth and fullness that one would normally attribute to a stronger vintage. Past the midpalate, more earthy, meaty nuances and a lovely infusion of spice then carried the wine into a beautiful finish that showed the elegant structure and definition that I love in the best of Arnoux’s wines. It was only a gentle raspiness on the tannins right at the end that confirmed my suspicions on the vintage, but not in a rustic way that one gets from some other examples from 1998 – think more like Billie Holliday trailing away in the last line of a great jazz number. A really lovely wine, just starting to resolve, but with the juicy freshness and balance to suggest that it has its best years ahead of it yet.

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  11/20/2015 - justburg wrote: 90 Points

  RSV night at Nicolas. Darkest of the 4 RSVs on show. Dark red, almost opaque. Spice, sandalwood, leather on the nose, with lots of black berries, currants, earth and forest floor. Good acidity and grip, with well integrated tannins. Compared to the Noellat and JJC, this seemed slightly "rougher", but still had a good reflection of the terroir.

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