Winemaker Notes
These are wines that exemplify the paradox of great Burgundy - power and concentration yet also an ethereal elegance. Enticing aromas of jasmine and sweet tea and a velvety mouthfeel are supported through the long finish with refreshing acidity and fine tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A pretty paler ruby, with an engaging fresh cherry bouquet, this is all about delicacy and finesse yet with a proper backbone, and persistence. Not the most nuanced but overall fine and typical. Drink from 2032-2042.
Barrel Sample: 93-96 -
Vinous
The 2023 Echézeaux Grand Cru has a very attractive bouquet with bright and vivacious strawberry, red cherry and cranberry fruit. Quite pure and well defined, this certainly shades the preceding Clos Vougeot. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins and a lovely rondeur, gaining weight toward a deftly spiced and persistent finish that is real class. One of the picks from Jadot this year, this Echézeaux is as good as you will find in 2023.
Barrel Sample: 94-96 -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2023 Echézeaux Grand Cru (Domaine Louis Jadot) is a strong performer this year and, along with the Chapelle-Chambertin, one of the obvious sleepers in the range. Offering up aromas of plums and berries mingled with orange zest, spices and potpourri, it's medium to full-bodied, suave and supple, with ripe tannins, a sweet core of fruit and a long finish.
Barrel Sample: 93-95 -
Wine Spectator
Cherry, raspberry, currant and spice flavors are embedded in the supple texture and dense structure of this red. Compact, long and balanced, needing time to relax and open up. Patience is required.
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.