The Jean Grivot Echezeaux 1988 was a wonderful wine. The bouquet was oozing with mature but fresh vibrant red pinot aromas - strawberry and frambroise. Fine complexity, minerality and finesse in the nose. On the palate very vibrant red fruits with a good acidity - and a medium body. This is not at …
Echezeaux
Jean Grivot, Echezeaux 2008
The Echezeaux 2008 from Grivot is closing down. The bouquet is a rather dark expression of pinot fruit, without the red notes and minerality one find in many 2008 reds. On the palate also rather dark, with quite good concentration and length. Maybe a bit to much extraction ... but otherwise very …
Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2007
The Echezeaux 2007 from Liger-Belair has a special place in my wine memory. I'm not a big fan of the 2007 vintage, but this is a fantastic Echezeaux ... bringing back memories of the late and great Henri Jayer. Very lush and silky, with very fine tannins, medium+ body and a very good length. Love …
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Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux 2010
Liger-Belairs Echezeaux is getting better and better as Louis-Michel get the vineyards in shape. Made from old vines in the very good parcels Cruots and Champs Traversin. Truly a grand cru effort with finesse and length. Precise and quite powerful with a wonderful minerality. Outstanding! 94 - …
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Echezeaux – Grand cru standard?
Echézeaux is one of the largest grands crus of the whole Côte d'Or. It’s divided into a number of plots or climats the vineyard, located around the smaller Grands-Echézeaux. I have tasted some very good bottles of Echezeaux, but also some very poor bottles where only the label was an indication …