2017 Domaine Jean Grivot, Echezeaux Grand Cru

The 2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru is quite reduced on the nose, offering darker fruit than its peers; a touch of wild mint emerges with time. There’s maybe too much winemaking evident at the moment. The palate is a little "soupy" on the entry but displays plenty of extraction. Dense and muscular for an Echezeaux, needing more terroir expression on the grippy finish. Odd showing... I'd like to reassess this at some point. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2017 tasting.

Light crimson. Ripe, pure red fruit. Deeply inviting, the fruit just very slightly darker in character than the Clos de Vougeot but still delicate for this appellation. Sour-cherry intensity. Tannins are a work of art, so fine but giving the perfect shape for the fruit. Fresh and incredibly persistent. (JH)