Lachaux's 2020 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru has turned out brilliantly in bottle, soaring from the glass with complex aromas of sweet berries and plums mingled with rose petals, orange rind, peonies, incense and spices. Full-bodied, deep and layered, it's velvety and seamless, with a deep, enveloping core of cool, vibrant fruit framed by sweet, supple tannins and concluding with a long, pure and pungently floral finish.

The brilliant 2019 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru bursts from the glass with scents of raspberries, rose petals, exotic spices, orange rind, musk and forest floor. Full-bodied, velvety and concentrated, it's a layered, textural wine, with a sensual attack that segues into a deep core of vibrant and intensely concentrated fruit, framed by melting tannins and lively acids. It concludes with a saline and intensely perfumed finish.

The 2018 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is showing brilliantly, unfurling in the glass with a youthfully reserved bouquet of rose petals, raspberries, sweet soil tones, bergamot, smoked tea and musk. Full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, it's deep and concentrated, with a tightly wound core, lively acids and supple, powdery tannins, concluding with a resonant finish. This is Romanée-Saint-Vivant at its most elegant and sensual, and even if a decade of bottle age is in order, its superb quality is already glaringly apparent.

The 2017 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is a brilliant wine, wafting from the glass with a complex and alluring bouquet of cherries, red berries, rose petal, blood orange and Asian spices. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny and multidimensional, with a lovely sense of completeness, succulent acids and a deep and concentrated core of fruit, concluding with a long and sapid finish. Elegant and compellingly complex, the Romanée-Saint-Vivant is the king of the cellar this year.

The 2016 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru is youthfully reticent, but the wine unwinds in the glass to reveal a stunning bouquet of violet, rose petal, dark berries, baking chocolate, candied peel and smoked duck. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a deep, multidimensional but tight-knit core that largely conceals its rich tannic chassis, bright balancing acids and a long, fragrant finish. This is a beautiful wine, built for the long haul, and it numbers among the best bottles that the young Charles Lachaux has produced to date.