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The Vosne Les Beaux Monts is one of my favorite wines from Grivot - and the 2011 version is yet again a delightful glass of Vosne. The bouquet is bursting with stony minerality, Vosne spices and red berry fruit. It's airy and quite filigree - lovely complexity. On the palate fine red fruit - very …
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The Echezeaux 2009 from Jean Grivot is a gorgeous wine. The bouquet is crammed with minerality, red fruit - cherries, raspberries - and spiced with peony rose, allspice and liquorice. On the palate rich and harmonious red fruit - focused by the beautiful minerality from the Cruots climate - and …
The Echezeaux 2007 from Jean Grivot is a truly mineralic expression of the Echezeaux terroir. The bouquet is offering primary red berry fruit - spiced with slightly toasted oak notes and a superb minerality. On the palate fine concentration for the vintage .... quite muscular with a firm mineralic …
One rarely have the chance to compare four of the very best wines from the Echezeaux vineyard. This was however the case earlier this week, where the Echezeaux 2007s from Grivot, Rouget, Liger-Belair and Domaine de la Romanee-Conti were served in one flght at a Burgundy tasting. These four …
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I'm not a very big fan of the 2009 vintage, but some 2009s are simply gorgeous - one is the very fine Echezeaux from Jean Grivot. The bouquet is oozing with minerality, red cherries, raspberries and liquorice. On the palate the fruit is very forward and outgoing, good acidity and very fine balance. …
