The 99 Echezeaux from Jayer-Gilles is a big quite opulent wine ... openly knit and showing the goods. The nose is open and vinous, red berries, a wide range of Vosne spices ... classic Flagey-Echezeaux. On the palate rich and generous ... almost Grands-Echezeux scaled ... quite opulent and forward. …
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Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Echezeaux 1993
The 1993 Echezeaux from DRC is now entering a matured stage. The nose offer fine red and dark berry fruit - good minerality and a lovely spicyness - a bit dusty and herbal. On the palate fine concentration and length ... a fine to very fine effort .. not the most defined or refined Echezeaux tasted …
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Visit – Domaine Georges Noëllat tasting of the 2014s from Cask
Domaine Georges Noëllat has within a few years moved from the dark and unknown to a rising bright star on the Burgundy heaven. Maxime Cheurlin is in my view an unique talent ... a natural .. with an intuitive ability for making great Burgundies. Within a few years he has managed to improve quality …
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Mongeard Mugneret, Echezeaux Grande Complication 2012
The Echezeaux La Grande Complication is a quite new wine from Mongeard-Mugneret. It's made from old vines, and is sort of replacing the Echezeaux Vieilles Vignes in the Mongeard lineup ... the Vielles Vignes plot was donated to the Hospices de Beaune after the 2011 vintage. La Grande Complication is …
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Domaine Bizot – tasting of the 2014 vintage
Domaine Bizot is in my view one of the most exiting estates in Vosne-Romanee. Domaine Bizot is not your average Vosne producer as it's run by Jean-Yves Bizot who has a academic backgound in Geology and this somehow shows in both the wines and the way the Domaine is managed. The wines have a …
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