2017 Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echézeaux Grand Cru
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The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru feels a little flat on the nose of simple red fruit, showing a touch of soy and just a hint of VA, perhaps, yet it improves with aeration and manifests much more complexity and personality. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy ripe red fruit, and slightly animally and feral toward the finish, but in a strangely attractive way. This improves in the glass, gaining elegance, and there is real intensity on the finish. An Echézeaux you will remember. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Neal Martin
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The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru, which contains around 20% whole bunches, has an intense bouquet of red and black fruit infused with cold stone and pressed violets; hints of cassis emerge with time. This is quite mercurial in the glass – it keeps you on your toes. The palate is medium-bodied with taut, crisp tannin on the entry, fine depth, velvety texture and a patina of new oak to be fully assimilated toward the persistent finish. Chinese five-spice lingers on the aftertaste.
The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru displays aromas of plums, dark chocolate, caramelized orange, spices, grilled game burg and French roast, framed by a lavish application of new wood. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and satiny, with a textural attack, a fine-boned but open-knit core and a long, nicely focused finish. It seemed ready for bottling and will be a precocious rendition of the Liger-Belair Echézeaux.
About the producer
Since its rebirth in 2000, Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair has quickly become one of the most highly sought-after producers in Vosne-Romanée. The most prized wine from the estate is their monopole Grand Cru La Romanée.