2019 Echezeaux

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru showed especially well from barrel, and it has realized all that potential in bottle. Wafting from the glass with aromas of red berries, cherries and plums mingled with exotic spices, peonies, blood orange and raw cocoa, it's full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with a broad attack and a deep, multidimensional core. Long and perfumed, it's as fine a young Echézeaux as I can remember tasting chez Dujac.

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.