2018 Domaine G. Roumier Échezeaux Grand Cru

Aromas of raspberries, plum preserve, wild berries, warm spices and creamy new oak introduce the 2018 Echézeaux Grand Cru, a full-bodied, supple and enveloping wine that's broad, velvety and charming. Giving and gourmand, this is one of the most open of Roumier's 2018s, and it will drink well comparatively young by the standards of the domaine and the vintage.

The 2018 Echézeaux Grand Cru has a perfumed bouquet of black cherry and blueberry fruit, quite intense but well delineated. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, dark berry fruit, cedar and tobacco. The wood tannins are perhaps a little too vocal on the finish. Roumier mentioned that the 2019 is exciting; let’s see what that brings.