2022 Domaine d'Eugenie, Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru

The 2022 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru also includes 80% whole bunches this year and the stems here are seamlessly integrated into the black fruit. Fine mineralité and focus, touches of flint emerging with time, a pinch of iris flower. On the second tasting, a month later, the aromatics come across more nuanced and complex. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit, crushed stone and a hint of liquorice in the background. Quite a "serious" Grands Echézeaux, the second tasting a month after the first reveals more Pinoté and pixelation on the finish, also the tannins less obdurate and more filigree. It will require several years in bottle but it is a well-crafted Grands Echézeaux.

The 2022 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru unwinds in the glass with aromas of dark berries, plums, violets, exotic spices and orange zest. Full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a deep core of almost unctuous fruit that largely conceals a serious structuring chassis, it concludes with a long, saline finish.