Winemaker Notes
Ideal with full-bodied and expressive meat dishes whether grilled or roasted. Also accompanies anything with truffles or mushrooms, or aged cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
Fine and elegant ruby purple, with a most stylish nose, a refined graceful pinot with floral overtones. Then just a little bit less than I was expecting on the palate with the peppery notes of some wines in 2021 at the finish. More hail here might be the explanation. Drink from 2027-2033.
Barrel Sample: 91-94 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Bursting with aromas of sweet cherries, red berries and plums mingled with sweet spices, orange zest and rose petals, the 2021 Echézeaux Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot) is medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with a seamless, complete profile, capturing all the charm of the vintage.
Barrel Sample: 92-94 -
Wine Spectator
Pretty rose, wild strawberry, currant and cherry aromas and flavors highlight this elegant red. Chalky tannins emerge as this winds down on the long finish. Though much about finesse, it's the length that shows this wine's potential. Best from 2026 through 2043. 55 cases imported.
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.