2019 Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux, Echezeaux Grand Cru, Les Rouges

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru Les Rouges is brilliant, bursting from the glass with aromas of wild berries, plums, exotic spices, orange rind and woodsmoke. Full-bodied, velvety and concentrated, it's deep and layered, with striking mid-palate plenitude and a long, expansive finish. Showing more structure and tension than I perceived in barrel, it will require a bit of patience.

The 2019 Echézeaux Les Rouges Grand Cru has a very intense bouquet with dark berry fruit than other cuvées, black cherries, boysenberry, hints of violet and a whiff of chalk dust. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grip on the entry, a melange of red and black fruit, clove, touches of game in the background. This feels like a more savoury Echézeaux, very well balanced with impressive density on the finish. This is very impressive though it will benefit from several years in the cellar.