Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A silky red, seamlessly integrated and bursting with black cherry and blackberry fruit. The toasty oak adds light char and chocolate accents. Best from 2020 through 2040.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Echezeaux Grand Cru has a delightful, floral, cassis and red cherry-scented bouquet with fine mineralité, much more convincing than the Clos Vougeot. The palate is medium-bodied with quite juicy tannin. There is good substance and body here with a touch of spice filtering through on the long peacock's tail of a finish. Not a match for the Cros Parantoux perhaps, but still a serious proposition.
Range: 92-94
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.