Winemaker Notes
Elegance and perfection, two of Joseph Drouhin's tenets. The color is bright and intense. A full palette of aromas reminiscent of stone fruit (cherry, peach, apricot), cocoa, exotic wood (cedar). On the palate, the texture is like silk and velvet. In the aftertaste, the same touch of dark chocolate is in evidence. Extremely long aftertaste.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Medium deep colour. They don’t usually show this but Véronique loves it in 2022. Their location, En Orveaux, does well in drier years. Starts well, shows the detail, then suddenly kicks on impressively with more energy behind than usual. Barrel Sample: (93-97)
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James Suckling
Ethereal, silky and refined, this medium-bodied wine is layered and subtle, deep but agile, with great acidity backing sweet cherries, cranberries, wild plums and hints of orange zest. It’s expansive and mouth-filling but somehow light and lifted. What a great wine from a great vintage. Best after 2029.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Echézeaux Grand Cru bursts with aromas of sweet berries, cherries, rose petals, spices and toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, broad and rich palate that's supple, giving and expansive.
Barrel Sample: 91-93
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.