I suspect that Lachaux considers his 2020 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Reignots superior to his Romanée-Saint-Vivant, and while I tend to disagree, there is no denying the quality of this hillside premier cru overlooking La Romanée and Romanée-Conti, where the domaine's vines are goblet-pruned and trained on individual stakes. Bursting with scents of raspberries, rose petals, smoked tea, orange zest and exotic spices, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless, with tangy acids that animate a beautifully vibrant, ethereal palate, concluding with a long, saline, rose-inflected finish.

The 2019 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Reignots is the most fragrant and ethereal wine in the range, offering up an exquisite bouquet of red berries, blood orange, exotic spices, peonies and violets. Full-bodied, ample and seamless, it's fleshy and succulent, with supple, beautifully refined tannins and lively balancing acids. Deep and complete, it concludes with a long, rose-inflected finish.

One cuvée that I radically underrated just after bottling is the 2018 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Reignots, a wine that I had the occasion to drink after harvest in 2021. Soaring from the glass with a striking bouquet of red berries, orange rind, rose petals, exotic spices and musk, it's medium to full-bodied, melting and sensual, with supple tannins and an ample core of pure, perfumed fruit. Suave and seamless, this is now showing its cards much more completely than was the case two years ago, and it's holding a winning hand.

The 2017 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Reignots offers up aromas of dried flowers, orange rind, smoked duck, spices and red berries. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and richly structured, though seemingly not as concentrated as the Suchots, with juicy acids, a vibrant core of fruit and a supple, incipiently gourmand profile.

Strikingly expressive and fragrant aromas of violets, rose petals, spices and red cherries introduce the 2016 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Aux Reignots, a medium to full-bodied, supple and satiny wine, its melting tannins entirely concealed in a succulent core of fruit, concluding with a long, saline finish. It's one of the more open, immediate premiers crus in the cellar. Lachaux observes that he wants people who open his bottles to be driven to drink them by “the desire to discover in the mouth what you have on the nose,” and with this wine, he has very much succeeded.