Terroir Insight: Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, NSG Clos des Corvées Pagets

One of my favourite wines from Charles Lachaux is the Nuits-Saint-Georges Clos des Corvées Pagets, a rather overlooked terroir located between Clos Saint-Marc, and Clos des la Corvées in the northern end of Premeaux – in the southern end of the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation.

So let’s take a closer look at the Arnoux-Lachaux plot in Nuits-Saint-Georges Clos de Corvées Pagets and have a look at the wine – as Charles Lachaux is making tremendous progress.

Premeaux-Prissy – the missing appellation

The Premeaux appellation was sort of lost in the classification .. and the vineyards are now a part of the large and sadly very diverse Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation.

To the north of the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation we have one or perhaps even two sections, that are more closely related to Vosne-Romanée. South of the Nuits-Saint-Georges town we have the “classic Nuit-Saint-Georges” area with vineyards like Les Saint-Georges, and after this section we have the last and southern part of Nuits-Saint-Georges – the Premeaux area – or if you like the Premeaux-Prissey appellation.

1. Clos des Grandes Vignes
2. Les Forêts
3. Aux Perdrix
4. Aux Corvées
5. Aux Corvées Pagets
6. Clos St. Marc
7. Les Argilliéres
8. Clos Arlot
9. Clos de la Maréchale

The Premeaux appellation – most of it shown on the map above – is in my view a very interesting area with several monopoles and a area that has experienced a tremendous improvement in quality the last 10 to 15 years.