Winemaker Notes
This powerfully structured wine has intense red fruit and spice aromas and flavors. It will develop in the bottle for 15 to 20 years.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Grands Echezeaux shows significantly more energy and floral lift than the Echezeaux. Spices, mint, flowers and graphite are some of the notes that develop in the glass, adding considerable depth and richness to the fruit. Layers of fruit build to the explosive, dazzling finish. This is breathtaking juice. Anticipated maturity: 2020-2035.
Barrel Sample: 95-97
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.