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Echézeaux Grand Cru Reviews

Score: 92 | October 1, 2014 | Wine & Spirits

Corseted by oak, this is a full-bore, generous wine for the vineyard, but as the black-walnut scent of oak dissipates with air, a complex and layered Vosne-Romanee begins to emerge. The fruit feels plump in the center, surrounded by oak and touches of Brett. But there's air in the tannins and the fruit, allowing some transparency, predicting the elegance this may attain with age.
 

Score: 94 | December 1, 2013 | Wine Enthusisat

Cellar selection. Already impressive, this wine shows great fruit for the vintage as well as structure.  Ripe with black cherries and berries, it has all of Pinot Noir’s rich juiciness, but hints of smoke add complexity as well.  Structured and a shade dark, it needs time to mature.  Drink from 2017.

Score: 93 | April 30, 2013 | Wine Spectator
There’s a hard edge to this red, derived from the acidity, tannins and a firm, stony element. The flavors evoke currant and cherry, with a touch of spice and earth. Still closed on the finish.
Score: 91 | April 1, 2013 | Wine & Spirits
Year's Best Burgundy (Oct 2013). This has the gentleness of Echézeaux with an underlying power, a light red glow of strawberries and minerals. The delicate fragrance keeps giving from a cool focal point of ripeness, persistent and graceful. Check on this ten years from the vintage.
Score: 93 | February 20, 2013 | Wine Spectator
There’s a hard edge to this red, derived from the acidity, tannins and a firm, stony element. The flavors evoke currant and cherry, with a touch of spice and earth. Still closed on the finish. Best from 2016 through 2032.
Score: 93 | November 1, 2012 | Wine Enthusiast
In this vintage, Echézeaux reveals an extra edge of really ripe, full fruits. They are balanced by the firm wood- and spice-laden structure, with the tannins and intense acids adding the final touches. Age this over 7–8 years.
Score: 92 | October 1, 2012 | Wine & Spirits
Delicate in its rose petal perfume that parallels the wine's sweet earthiness, this is, in fact, quite solidly built, though all its heft seems hidden beneath the surface. A contrast of deep and somber structure with fresh-cut cherry fruit, this has the substance and length of flavor to benefit from long aging.
Score: 91 | June 1, 2012 | Burghound.com
In contrast to all of the prior wines, here there is enough oak to fight somewhat with the otherwise attractively spicy and ripe black fruit liqueur aromas. To be clear, the wood is not dominant but neither is it discreet. There is good richness and volume to the moderately concentrated flavors that possess good complexity but here too the wood comes up on the mouth coating and lingering finish that is supported by a slightly chewy finish. There is good material and the phenolics are clearly ripe so this will probably harmonize in time though at present it's awkward as there is also a touch of backend warmth. My score offers the benefit of the doubt as the persistence is indisputably impressive.
Score: 92 | February 28, 2012 | Wine Spectator
This offers vanilla, sandalwood and caramom scents, evolving as this develops on the palate. Wild cherry, raspberry and floral flavors are backed by a solid base of tannins, rendering this red muscular and graceful. Needs time. Best from 2016 through 2030.