1995 Grands Echezeaux
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The dark ruby-colored Grands-Echezeaux exhibits deep, sensual, spicy berry fruit aromas and an intense, concentrated, chewy, blackberry, dark cherry, currant and Asian spice-packed, velvety-textured palate leading to a long, rich, and sweet finish. Combining elegance and power, in your face fruit yet delineation, this outstanding wine should provide years of immense satisfaction. Anticipated maturity: 2003-2014. This note is the result of tastings I did in Burgundy between January 7 and January 29. The wine was tasted from cask, not bottle. Pinot Noir, a fragile varietal, reacts poorly to fining, filtration, and careless bottling techniques, I recommend caution when considering buying a red burgundy based on cask samples. I called it as I tasted it, and hope the bottled wine reflects the quality of the samples I was provided. Mongeard believes the 1995 vintage is better than 1990, and said it reminded him of 1985 but with more structure. Importer: Vineyard Brands, Chester, VT; tel. (802) 875-2139.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Pierre Rovani
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Very good deep red. Cassis, mint, licorice and herbs on the nose; with aeration a perfumed cherry candy note emerged. Offers less sheer size than the Echezeaux Vieilles Vignes but lovely restrained, juicy sweetness and greater class. More backward today, showing its very firm structure on the back half. Firm, fairly tannic finish. Quite stylish for a wine from this producer. The yield here was just 26 hectoliters per hectare, says Mongeard, compared to 35 in '96. Like the '95 Richebourg, this wine did not require chaptalization.