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Flagey-Echezeaux – the vineyard articles

The Grand Crus of Flagey-Echezeaux

Some of the fine Grand Crus are located in Flagey-Echezeaux – while the village and 1er crus located in this appellation is labeled Vosne-Romanée despite their Flagey-Echezeaux appellation.

Granda Echezeaux

  • Terroir Insight: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Grands Echézeaux
    Grands Echzeaux is one of the more prominent grand crus which sits just below the very top tier – meaning Romanee-Conti, La Romanée, La Tâche, Richebourg, Romanée Saint-Vivant, and Musigny. It is a brilliant terroir, and is perhaps even a bit overlooked, although new producer names in this vineyard have led to increased consumer focus on ...
  • Terroir Insight: Domaine Georges Noëllat Grands Echézeaux
    Grands Echézeaux is one of the most prominent grands crus, despite being just below the top-tier names like Romanee-Conti, La Romanée, La Tâche, and Musigny. It sits in a category with vineyards such as Richebourg, Chambertin, and Romanée Saint-Vivant – very close to the top. Grands Echézeaux is a brilliant terroir, and is perhaps even a ...
  • Terroir View: Domaine Robert Sirugue Grands Echezeaux
    Grands Echezeaux is experiencing a revival, with producers like Georges Noëllat, Coquard-Loison-Fleurot, Jean-Marc Millot and Domaine Robert Sirugue improving quality in this appellation, after Domaine de la Romanée-Conti also took some impressive leaps forward quality-wise with its Grands Echezeaux. In this article, I will take a closer look at the Grands Echezeaux from Domaine Robert Sirugue, ...
  • Terroir Insight: Domaine d’Eugenie Grands Echezeaux
    Grands Echzeaux is one of the most prominent grand crus just below the top tire – meaning Romanee-Conti, La Romanée, La Tâche, Richebourg, Romanée Saint-Vivant, Richebourg and Musigny. Grands Echezeaux is a brilliant terroir, and is perhaps even a bit overlooked, although new producer names on this vineyard have increased the focus on Grands Echezeaux. Domaine d’Eugenie ...
  • Terroir View – Domaine Coquard Loison Fleurot Grands-Echezeaux
    The Grands-Echezeaux is seeing a revival in these years with producers like Georges Noëllat, Domaine Robert Sirugue, and Jean-Marc Millot improving the quality tremendously and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti also seem to have taken a big step forward quality-wise with the Grands-Echezeaux. In this article I will take a closer look at the Domaine Coquard Loison-Fleurot ...
  • Terroir View – Domaine Jean-Marc Millot Grands Echezeaux
    The Grands Echezeaux is seeing a revival in these years with producers like Georges Noëllat, Coquard-Loison-Fleurot, and Jean-Marc Millot improving the quality tremendously and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti also seem to have taken a big step forward quality wise with the Grands Echezeaux. In this article I will take a closer look at the Domaine Jean-Marc ...
  • Terroir insight – DRC Grands-Echezeaux
    The Grands-Echezeaux is somehow the slightly overlooked wine in the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti lineup. It is however a magnificent wine in its own right, but is of course somewhat overshadowed by the four top reds – Richebourg, Romanee Saint-Vivant, La Tâche and Romanee-Conti. In this article I will take a closer look at the DRC ...

    Echezeaux

    • Terroir Insight: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair Echezeaux – New plot
      Update … Louis-Michel Liger-Belair has expanded his holdings in Echezeaux from 2020 with a plot of Echezeaux du Dessus, adding to the plots he already has in Cruots ou Vignes Blanches, Champs Traversin and Clos Saint-Denis. I don’t at the moment have further information about the precise location of the plot – nor do I have the ...
    • Terroir Insight: Domaine Jean Grivot, Echezeaux
      Echezeaux Les Cruots or if you like Echezeaux Les Vigne Blanches is one of the most interesting terroirs in the Flagey-Echezeaux part of Burgundy. Henry Jayer found this to be one of the best terroirs in the large Echezeaux grand cru – and Jayer apparently made a special Echezeaux cuvée from this vineyard. One of the most ...
    • Terroir View: Hospice de Beaune, Echezeaux du Dessus “Jean-Luc Bissey”
      Hospice de Beaune have some quite prominent vineyards, and one is the relatively new Echezeaux du Dessus. The Hospice wines are getting increasingly expensive like most other Burgundies, and the Echezeaux is one of the most costly wines these days – together with the Clos de la Roche and Mazis-Chambertin cuvées. … still recall that ...
    • Terroir View: Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Echezeaux
      Echezeaux is a complex vineyard, and actually only quite a few of the wines that are produced from one climate within the large Echezeaux vineyard. Many are wines from two or even several areas in the Echezeaux vineyard. There are however some prominent single vineyard Echezeaux’s .. and one is the Echezeaux made by Charles Lachaux ...
    • Terroir View: Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet, Echezeaux
      Echezeaux is a both large, diverse and in many contexts lovely vineyard, that provide a grand cru terroir for a large number of talented producers. One of the very talented owners of Echezeaux is Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet who owns a small but important part of the vineyard, as Amélie Berthaut has taken over the holdings of the ...
    • Terroir View: Domaine Jean-Marc Millot, Echezeaux “Cuvée 1949”
      One of the new special cuvées in Burgundy is the Echezeaux “Cuvée 1949” made by Alix Millot of Domaine Jean-Marc Millot. It’s a special cuvée made from the Echezeaux vineyard – or more precisely from the Echezeaux Dessus section – from a plot with very old wines. Lets take a closer look at the Echezeaux “Cuvée 1949” ...
    • Terroir insight – Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus
      This is a new format on the blog … articles where the location of the terroir of one wine is uncovered in depth and detail. First out is the Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus, one of the relatively few single climate and single plot Echezeaux’s on the market. Climate and location The plot – cadastre no 631 – is ...
    • Echézeaux du Dessus – the heart of Echézeaux
      One of the first articles I made for this blog was an article about Echézeaux. While the article have been very popular with the readers, it really needs an update … so I have planned a series of articles about the Echézeaux vineyard. The first article is about the very the core of the Echézeaux vineyard ...
    • Discovering Echézeaux in detail – the project!
      One of the first articles I made for this blog was an article about Echézeaux. While the article have been very popular with the readers, it really needs an update … so here we go. Echézeaux is a very large and complex vineyard, and its therefore impossible to make one article, that covers all the topics ...
    • 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 of its grand cru status. ...