Domaine de l’Arlot, Romanee-Saint-Vivant 1996

The Romanee-Saint-Vivant 1996 from Domaine de l’Arlot is a lovely but quite contrastful wine. In the nose sweet red fruit – strawberries and raspberries – spiced with cinnamon, allspice and tar. On the palate a lovely sweet and delicate fruit – firmly structured by a powerful acidity and some slightly rustic hints of tannins. It’s quite refined with a lovely contrastful complexity – sweet l’Arlot meets 1996. Not the most concentrated RSV … but this is nevertheless a lovely glass of complex pinot.

(Drink from Now) – Fine+ (92p) – Tasted 04/10/2013

Tasting Notes for this producer

• Domaine de l’Arlot, Romanee Saint-Vivant 1998 September 22, 2016
• Domaine de l’Arlot, Romanee-Saint-Vivant 1996 October 12, 2013

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