1993 Grands Echezeaux

Engel's 1993s reveal some of the vintage's toughness, but there is also plenty of sweet, ripe fruit, particularly in the three grand crus. The Grands Echezeaux is the most dazzling wine in Engel's 1993 portfolio. It boasts an impressively saturated, dark ruby/purple color, and a powerful set of aromatics that includes plenty of black-raspberries and cherries, along with minerals, spices, and new oak. This medium to full-bodied wine's sweet attack offers gobs of glycerin and richness that are followed by considerable muscle and tannin. Give it 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following decade. Engel's 1993s may be the finest and most consistent group of wines he has yet made. All were bottled without filtration, and the Grands Echezeaux was bottled with neither fining nor filtration. A Peter Vezan Selection (Paris fax # 011 33 1 42554293), various American importers

Engel's 1993s reveal some of the vintage's toughness, but there is also plenty of sweet, ripe fruit, particularly in the three grand crus. The Grands Echezeaux is the most dazzling wine in Engel's 1993 portfolio. It boasts an impressively saturated, dark ruby/purple color, and a powerful set of aromatics that includes plenty of black-raspberries and cherries, along with minerals, spices, and new oak. This medium to full-bodied wine's sweet attack offers gobs of glycerin and richness that are followed by considerable muscle and tannin. Give it 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following decade. Engel's 1993s may be the finest and most consistent group of wines he has yet made. All were bottled without filtration, and the Grands Echezeaux was bottled with neither fining nor filtration. A Peter Vezan Selection (Paris fax # 011 33 1 42554293), various American importers