If you like your red burgundy slightly overripe, rich, round, sweet, and deliciously up-front, this is a producer of whom to take note. Arlaud has a tendency to over-crop and resort to a heavy-handed use of sugar to add body and flavor, but there is no doubting that in a low yield year such as 1991, everything in the wine is natural. His 1991 offerings avoid the hard, green, astringent, sharp tannins that plague many 1991s. All are wines to be consumed in their first 5-7 years of life.
The 1991 Clos de la Roche offers a more earthy, herbal, sweet black-cherry-scented nose, and ripe, medium-bodied flavors with gobs of glycerin, alcohol, and lushness. This is an up-front, in-your-face style of red burgundy for consuming over the next 5-6 years. A Peter Vezan selection, various importers, including Ideal Wines, Medford, MA.