2019 Domaine Dujac, Echezeaux Grand Cru

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru was showing especially well when I visited, bursting with aromas of cherries, rose petals, sweet spices, musk, blood orange and burning embers. Full-bodied, fleshy and sumptuous, with lively acids, lovely purity of fruit and powdery tannins, it's long and expansive.

The 2019 Echézeaux Grand Cru shows a little more stem addition influence than the Les Beaux Monts, scents of truffle, damp autumnal leaves and dark berry fruit. There is fine delineation here although I find the Premier Crus show a little more grace. The palate is medium-bodied with more cohesion than the nose, modest weight, fresh and lightly peppered with a dab of white pepper and bay leaf towards the finish. Quintessentially Dujac in style, it should age well over the next 20 years.