Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Echezeaux Grand Cru 2014

Professional Ratings

• 92 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2014 Echézeaux Grand Cru was picked on 24, 25 and 26 September at 27.8 hectoliters per hectare. It offers an expressive bouquet, more vivacious than the 2012 Echézeaux, with scents of black plum, raspberry preserve and subtle limestone aromas. It unfolds with confidence in the glass. The palate is surprisingly structured on the entry, perhaps with ambitions towards its elder brother, the Grands Echézeaux. There is a gentle, slightly leafy quality to this Grand Cru, perhaps more masculine and reserved than other vintages tasted just after bottling. The aftertaste feels long with a cheeky pinch of black pepper. Probably one of the most approachable 2014s from the domaine, and just as likely to be drunk too young!
• 91 Decanter
  The Echézeaux displays a deeper, more saturated hue, and a more fruity bouquet of cherry, coniferous sous bois and woodsmoke, framed by creamy new oak. On the palate, the wine reveals more power an amplitude than the Corton which preceded it, with a sweet and expansive attack and a full mid-palate. On the finish, however, firm tannins and taut acids assert themselves, making this a rather austere wine which will demand patience to reveal its true quality.