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2017 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Echézeaux Grand Cru (nicked label)

2017 DRC Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Echézeaux Grand Cru (nicked label)

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Decanter

Review Date: 01/2020

Delicate, light and pale in colour, this pure, scented Échézeaux shows how well the vines bounced back from the catastrophic 2016 harvest, when frost resulted in super concentrated yields of only 6hl/ha. Spicy, savoury and appealingly perfumed, with notes of red berries, fresh tobacco and green malt from 75% whole cluster fermentation, medium weight, sappy tannins, redcurrant and raspberry fruit and a slightly bitter, almost medicinal undertone. Drinking Window 2025 - 2032. (TA)

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Wine Advocate

Review Date: 01/2020
The flamboyant 2017 Échézeaux Grand Cru is especially good this year, bursting from the glass with an extravagant bouquet of wild berries, rose petals, cinnamon, smoked duck and Asian spices. On the palate, it's full-bodied, supple and velvety, with an expansive attack and superb depth and amplitude, its fleshy core of fruit framed by fine, melting tannins. Reminiscent of a modern-day version of the Domaine's 1985 Échézeaux, this is another 2017 that has gained appreciably with its final months of élevage. Picked on the 18th, this was where the estate's harvest concluded. (WK)

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Wine Spectator

Review Date: 03/2020
Shy in aromas, the 2017 Echézeaux hints at cherry, currant and light floral notes. It is nonetheless silky and elegant, with fine intensity to the berry flavors, ending with elements of spice and mineral (94 points, non-blind). (BS)

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Burghound

Review Date: 01/2020
A completely different nose offers up much spicier and slightly toastier aromas of red currant, pomegranate, sandalwood and an interesting hint of incense. There is excellent vibrancy to the attractively textured middle weight flavors that don't have the minerality of the Corton but do offer slightly better depth and precision on the lingering finale that is shaped by relatively fine-grained tannins. This should be approachable a bit earlier than usual.
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Notes

94-96 points, Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy: "Bright even purple. Very light reduction here, also the stems come out very well. Lifted purple fruit, seems quite exotic and full of energy before refining back to greater elegance, and beautifully long. Could use a little more elegance but this is so fine and graceful. For interest, we also tried the same wine in a cigar shaped barrel, the idea being to keep the wine more in touch with its lees. It showed the oak more and the whole bunch effect less, with a greater intensity of red- and black-currant fruit, and a touch more acidity. Very interesting." (11/2018)

Product Details

Origin: Vosne Romanee, Burgundy, France

Type/Varietal: Pinot Noir

SKU: #1514356