Winemaker Notes
Intense garnet color with hints of purple. There is an aromatic intensity with aromas of ripe cherry and notes of raspberry. Supple and round on the palate with well-integrated tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Ripe yet crisp and mouthwatering, this full-bodied red highlights savory blackberry and black-plum flavors cut with accents of stone and salt. Vinified in stainless steel and matured in oak for 18 months, it's rounded and weighty but elegant and svelte too. Fine-grained yet persistent tannins are approachable now. This wine should maintain peak through 2027.
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.