A strikingly fresh, cool and highly restrained nose features notes of ripe red currants, floral, earth and hints of wood and the sauvage. There is equally good freshness and intensity to the vibrant and tightly coiled mineral-driven flavors that exhibit outstanding delineation on the taut, persistent and impeccably well-balanced finale. This is a relatively racy 2015 that will require extended aging before it will fully resolve its supporting tannins to arrive at its apogee. In sum, this is very impressive.

Score: 94 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), January 2018

The 2015 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru is one of the more aromatically reticent wines in the range, opening in the glass with notes of coniferous forest floor, raspberry and currant leaf. On the palate, the wine is supple, silky and expansive, with a deep and sapid core of fruit, bright acids, and fine-grained, chalky tannins which assert themselves on the finish. This will need time, but the raw materials are promising.

Charles Lachaux has made a number of decisive changes since taking over direction of this domaine from his father Robert. Biodynamic viticulture inspired by Lalou Bize-Leroy, extensive use of whole bunch vinification, and a much more modest use of new oak are among the most critical. Charles´ ambition is to produce ever more concentrated fruit in the vineyards to obviate the need to search for concentration in the cellar. His 2015s are attractively pure, fragrant and transparent, though I´m sure the best is yet to come—and with appellations like these, Charles´ best will be very good indeed. Readers can expect an extensive report on the changes here later in the year.

Score: 94+ William Kelley (WK), The Wine Advocate (WA), April 2018