Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Toasty, spicy new oak and coffee aromas frames black cherry and plum flavors in this dense, yet evocative red. Overall, this shows excellent balance, with a firm layer of tannins and lively acidity giving it lift. A mineral element emerges on the superb finish. Best from 2024 through 2042.
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James Suckling
From a small parcel in Les Treaux, this has a very spicy array of roses and red cherries with a gentle, orange-zest edge, too. The palate has a very intense and quite concentrated feel with central depth, fine tannins, bright red-cherry and anise flavors and a silky and layered feel on the finish. Powerful and seamless. Best from 2025.
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.