2020 Echezeaux
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The 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru offers up aromas of plums and cherries mingled with exotic spices, licorice and rose petals. Full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, its broad and textural attack segues into an ample core of fruit, framed by supple tannins and lively acids, before concluding with a long, perfumed finish.
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Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
Neal Martin
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The 2020 Echézeaux Grand Cru, which comes from En Orveaux, is fresh and delineated on the nose, touches of mint and dark chocolate infusing the dark berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe, quite dense tannins. This is quite a "compact" Echézeaux, grippy and spicy, just missing a little elegance on the finish.
From En Orveaux, a usefully cooler site, making a pleasingly ripe wine but with good detail too. Look for aroma rather than body here, and this certainly has a floral note, while the stems infuse the finish and open this out very well.�
About the producer
Bouchard Père & Fils is one of Burgundy’s oldest and most established wine producers. Founded in 1731 by Michel Bouchard, it is the largest vineyard owner in the Côte d’Or with 130 hectares of vines.