The 2021 Echézeaux Grand Cru, which comes from lieux-dits, has a clean and precise bouquet, gradually unfolding with quite pure black cherry and crushed strawberry fruit, plenty of crushed violet here. The palate is medium-bodied with a creamy opening. Some new oak needs to be subsumed, but there is fine weight and density, a nice countervailing bitterness that adds contrast to the creaminess on the finish. It deserves 4-5 years in bottle. (NM)

A broad range of spice elements adds breadth to the various red berry fruit, exotic tea and sandalwood-scented nose. The delicious, intense and beautifully delineated medium-bodied flavors possess equally good power and fine-grained tannins on the balanced and impressively long finish. This could use better depth, but it should reasonably develop with time in bottle.