1991 Domaine Jayer-Gilles Echézeaux du Dessus Grand Cru

Elegant, pure and still remarkably youthful aromas of spice, black fruit and plenty of earth lead to moderately structured, rich and velvety flavors that deliver very impressive persistence. This is a dense wine with plenty of mid-palate stuffing yet there is nothing heavy or four-square about it. Best of all, while it can be approached now, it will hold for another decade with no problem.­

Author: Allen Meadows

Smooth, polished, silky and elegant, unfolding raspberry, smoke, toast, game and plum flavors that persist into a long, luscious finish. Has scratchy tannins to lose, but the goods to age.

Author: James Laube

The 1991 Echezeaux is light-bodied for a Jayer wine, as well as more compact and austere. The wine offers an attractive floral, berry-scented nose, spicy, medium-bodied, moderately concentrated flavors, and noticeably hard, astringent tannin in the finish.

Author: Robert Parker