2015 Maison Joseph Drouhin Grands-Echézeaux Grand Cru

(30% vendange entier): Bright, dark red with ruby highlights. Lovely herbal lift and minerality to the aromas of kirsch and blackberry. Juicy on entry, then tight and imploded in the middle palate, hinting at the intensity to come. Finishes quite tannic and long but not dry. This wine has a lot of expanding to do. Can't quite match the Musigny for refinement but this should be a beauty for the patient collector.

(30% vendange entier ): Bright, dark red with ruby highlights. Lovely herbal lift and minerality to the aromas of kirsch and blackberry. Juicy on entry, then tight and imploded in the middle palate, hinting at the intensity to come. Finishes quite tannic and long but not dry. This wine has a lot of expanding to do. Can't quite match the Musigny for refinement but this should be a beauty for the patient collector.

The 2015 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru was a little more reduced on the nose than the Echezeaux at this early stage, though there appears to be great power and intensity waiting to unfurl. The palate is medium-bodied, intense with a very silky texture belying the backbone underneath. This is more masculine, perhaps even more austere than the Echézeaux, but it is beautifully balanced with a very long tail on the finish. There is ambition locked into this nascent Grand Cru.