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The Echezeaux is a bit more backward offering more dark fruit … The bouquet offer ripe red and dark berry fruit – fine minerality. On the palate intense fruit – balanced, long and ripe with a fine mineralic backbone The fruit is juicy but lacking the nerve and energy of the truly magnificent Grands Echezeaux. Need plenty of time to unfold. Jun 2016, www.winehog.org
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Steen Öhman, Winehog
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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(from a .99 ha parcel in Champs Traversin). This too is quite ripe with its liqueur-like aromas of black raspberry, spice and floral hints that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice. The velvety, supple and quite round flavors coat the palate with dry extract that also pushes the moderately firm tannins to the background on the slightly warm finish where the wood resurfaces. While the structure is such that this will certainly age for years, the acidity seems to be on the lower side and though this is by no means soft or flabby, the finish doesn’t have the vibrancy of the best here. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com
The 2015 Echezeaux Grand Cru has a very perfumed, wilted violet-scented bouquet that almost has a Margaux-like personality. I appreciate the delineation and focus here. The palate is smooth and silky on the entry with a keen line of acidity, bright and quite vivid in style with animated red cherry, crushed strawberry and spice box notes on the finish that gently fans out. This is a well-crafted Echezeaux from Albert Bichot. Dec 2016, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Based in Nuits-Saint-Georges, Domaine du Clos Frantin is Albert Bichot’s top estate. The domaine has an exceptional range of Grand Cru and Premier Cru sites in the Côte de Nuits and has for several years been producing top drawer-Burgundy.