Arnoux-Lachaux

Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux sits in Vosne-Romanée, with roughly fourteen and a half hectares of Pinot Noir stretched across Vosne and Nuits-Saint-Georges, including Echézeaux and a clutch of Premier Crus such as Les Suchots, Les Chaumes, Les Procès and Clos des Corvées Pagets. Charles Lachaux took over from his father Pascal in 2012 and reshaped the domaine’s vineyard work: extreme canopy management, organic conversion toward biodynamics, and near-total whole-cluster fermentation. New oak has been dialled back — around ten percent on villages wines, twenty on Premier Cru and at most thirty on Grand Cru — so that the fruit and site speak more clearly. Average vine age runs near fifty years, with some parcels planted as early as 1921.

“The wines that emerge are translucent and aerial, with bright red fruit and a saline, almost ethereal finish.”

Since 2018 Charles has also bottled a small négociant range under his own name, applying the same vineyard-first logic to parcels he follows closely outside the family holdings.