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The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru is a bigger, richer wine that pushes on the ripeness scale, offering a monster bouquet of red and black fruits, licorice, spice, and roasted herb-like nuances, with a kiss of violets emerging with time in the glass. Needing plenty of air to show at its best, it's full-bodied and concentrated on the palate, with a much broader, more expansive, and hedonistic style. However, its balance and precision lag the 2018, and this is a beast of wine that could be mistaken for a Grenache at this young stage. It’s going to take some time to shed its considerable baby fat and should have two decades or more of longevity. While I suspect the 2018 will be the longer-lived wine, I doubt it will ever match the 2019 for sheer hedonistic pleasure or sexiness.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2019 Echézeaux Grand Cru is a powerhouse. Dark, rich and explosive, the 2019 packs a huge punch. There is plenty of intensity in the blue/purplish-tinged fruit. The domaine's Echézeaux is often a charmer, but that is not the case here, at least not today. At times, the 2019 feels a bit heavy. It will be interesting to see how it ages.
This was the last of the Domaine’s reds to be harvested, on 22 and 23 September. Yield was 23 hl/ha from 35-year-old vines. Total production 871 cases. Dense, savoury and briary on the nose. A hint of liquorice. Bone dry with quite marked tannins at this stage. The density of fruit distracts from the acidity in this case. But it’s more embryonic than usual with lots kept in reserve. Dried bitter cherries. Medium weight and relatively incommunicative. Just hinting at riches to come. Straight into the cellar with this one! It doesn’t really want to be tasted at this stage… (JR)
The 2019 Echézeaux was picked on 22 and 23 of September at 23hL/ha. Conspicuously deeper in colour than the Corton, this has a fuller bouquet with red cherries, raspberry coulis, traces of tobacco and autumn leaves. The palate is quite succulent on the entry, candid red fruit (raspberry and wild strawberry), hints of marmalade and quince. Perhaps it just misses a little persistence on the finish, my inclination that this Echézeaux will drink early, yet has the substance to provide a couple of decades of drinking pleasure. 871 cases produced. Tasted at Corney & Barrow’s annual in bottle tasting in London.
About the producer
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or simply “DRC” is without doubt the most famous domaine in Burgundy and one of the most famous producers on earth. The Grand Cru vineyard from which it takes its name produces the world’s most expensive wine by a long margin.