1995 Echezeaux

This wine is a gorgeously elegant, complex, feminine, highly-detailed and rich wine. I was surprised by how well it showed, and feel it can be drunk over the course of the next 10 years. Importer: Wilson-Daniels, St. Helena, CA; tel. (707) 963-9661.

Perfumed, sexy black fruit aromas explode from the glass and the big, robust, structured, intense, full-bodied flavors display a wonderful sappy and spicy quality plus good if not special length. This is still moderately structured yet there is already a velvety quality to the finish that makes this really quite seductive and while the '95 Ech is certainly a quality effort, there is a small hole in the mid-palate that prevents this from rising to the next level. In short, delicious but not exceptional by the standards of this wine. Consistent notes. Allen Meadows, Burghound Nov16,2005

Very pale ruby-brick colour. Wonderfully open, fragrant nose of rose petals, dried cranberries, iron ore, cinnamon and cardamom. The palate reveals the most approachable wine of the 1995 DRC line-up giving plenty of opulent fruit supported by crisp acidity and a low to medium level of silky tannins. Very long spicy finish. Lisa Perrotti-Brown, May 2010