Winemaker Notes
The nose features a palette of red berry and summer fruit aromas, enhanced by spicy notes. Round and well balanced on the palate with harmonious structure and rather discrete woody notes. The finish is incredibly long with a touch of dark chocolate on the finish.
During a meal, this exquisite wine can accompany finely prepared red meats, all types of game, stews, marinated red meats, and roasts as well as most cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A rich, round style, with ample cherry, strawberry, mineral and spice flavors. The texture is silky, backed by dense, pointed tannins. All the elements come together on the lingering aftertaste. Classy. Best from 2023 through 2040.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru is one of the highlights of the Bichot range, wafting from the glass with aromas of smoked meats, cassis, rich soil and creamy new oak. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, ample and layered, with rich structuring tannins, nice flesh at the core and juicy balancing acids.
Barrel Sample: (90-92)+
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Claiming the two famous Grand Crus, Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux, the identity of this village, Flagey-Echezeaux, rides predominantly on the glory of those two crus. All of the village or Premier Cru status vineyards in Flagey-Echezeaux market themselves under the name of their neighbor, Vosne-Romanée.
Echezeaux Pinot noir tends be light, bright and full of finesse, whereas those of Grands Echezeaux typically have more heft and complexity.