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Joseph Drouhin Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru 2016 750ml Case of 12
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A classic-styled Echezeaux with smoke, dried strawberries and spices. Flowers, too. Full body, dusty tannins and firm, polished and textured finish. Needs four or five years to open but a beautiful wine to taste now.
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A classic-styled Echezeaux with smoke, dried strawberries and spices. Flowers, too. Full body, dusty tannins and firm, polished and textured finish. Needs four or five years to open but a beautiful wine to taste now.
BH96pts
Burghound
There is enough wood influence to mention setting off the liqueur-like aromas of black cherry liqueur, plum, smoke, Asian-style tea and subtle floral wisps. Like the Clos de Vougeot the big-bodied and overtly muscular flavors possess superb richness while displaying evident power on the mouth coating, extract-rich and superbly persistent finish where the wood exhibited by the nose reappears. In short, this is breathtakingly good.
DC93pts
Decanter
This year’s Grands-Echezeaux was vinified inside a 300 litre barrel without any destemming, but the wine is not as aberrant as one might expect, opening in the glass with a bouquet of black fruit, game, violet and spice. On the palate the wine is rich, intense and savoury, with some stem tannins asserting themselves on the back end. Overall this remains true to the fine lineage of Drouhin’s Grands-Echezeaux.
WA92pts
Wine Advocate
The 2016 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru has a refined bouquet with blackberry, blueberry, woodland and spice box aromas—quite complex and very focused, growing in stature in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. The oak comes through rather too strongly on the finish, and I hope this is assimilated by the time it is bottled. I did inquire and was told that it was matured in a single 350-liter barrel that was one year old, so maybe it was just one of those days?
VM92pts
Vinous Media
Healthy dark red. Much more interesting on the nose than the Clos Vougeot, with aromas of raspberry, flowers, spices and medicinal menthol joined by riper notes of chocolate and mirabelle. Plush, ripe and sweet on the attack, offering a refined texture but suggesting a wide range of ripeness with its notes of prune, spices, mint and menthol. Finishes with serious, late-arriving tannins and a saline mineral quality that piques the taste buds. Still a bit disjointed, this wine will need patience to take its ultimate shape.
Winery Notes
In its youth, the wine displays aromas of great finesse, reminiscent of cherry and dark chocolate or cocoa bean, which is a delicate and sought after characteristic of this wine. As the wine matures, these aromas evolve towards other refined nuances evoking undergrowth, truffle, fine leather and sometimes light notes of cigar or cedar wood. The result is of great elegance and breed. The tannins are refined and the silk and velvet of the body are a perfect match. Very long aftertaste in which some of the aromas previously encountered are again in evidence and create the most elegant sensation.
