2022 Echezeaux

Dujac's 2022 Echezeaux Grand Cru is broad and supple, bursting with aromas of smoky plums, wild berries, peonies, orange zest and spices. Full-bodied, unctuous and enveloping, its textural attack segues into a fleshy but succulent core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins.

100% whole clusters, 70% new oak. Cask sample. Deep-mid ruby. Dark red and black cherries, raspberries and some spicy new oak. This is tremendously concentrated, with a taught, muscular body and frame. There is perfume and elegance, too; it’s no bruiser. Young, nervous, spicy. A cracking young Échezeaux. (MH)