2013 Domaine Faiveley Echézeaux Grand Cru
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Tasting notes
Medium red. Reticent but pure aromas of redcurrant, earth, dried flowers, tobacco and smoked meat. Concentrated, savory and firmly built; noteworthy energy gives this very young wine a distinctly sappy character. Finishes fine-grained, dry and long, with the extract to support its ripe tannins. This will go truffley and earthy with six or seven years in the bottle.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Jancis Robinson MW
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Cask sample. Dark, peppery fruit on the nose. Promising. Hint of vanilla. Much the best of the Faiveley wines in this tasting but there is a hint of that cardboard flavour at a much lower level. Tannins are fine and dry, the oak in balance with the dark peppery fruit. (JH)
(aged in two-thirds new oak; this was 11.8% potential alcohol chaptalized to 12.8%): Medium red. Musky aromas of red fruits and animal fur. Sharply focused and pure if tightly coiled, showing terrific cut to its intense red berry flavors. A wine of moderate volume but terrific sappy digestibility. This youthfully taut, rather cool Echézeaux (I might have picked it blind as coming from Chambolle-Musigny) will need considerable time in bottle to unwind.
About the producer
Domaine Faiveley is one of Burgundy’s most important wine producers. The family-owned estate, now in the hands of the seventh generation, is one of the largest in the region, with significant holdings in both the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise.