2011 Echezeaux
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The 2011 Echézeaux Grand Cru has an exquisite, refined bouquet with beautifully integrated red and black fruit completely assimilated with the subtle oak. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, layers of red fruit tinged with Earl Grey and a touch of sea salt, leading to a rounded finish that manages to maintain refinement and appears to have gained weight and girth in recent years. Excellent. Tasted at Flint Wines Burgundy 2011 tasting.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Neal Martin
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Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. The Echézeaux Grand Cru 2011 from Lamarche is showing a lot of reduction on the nose that makes it difficult for the fruit to express itself. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chewy, grippy tannins. This comes across as more masculine than its peers, nevertheless I appreciate the detail and focus on the linear finish. Returning after 10 minutes there is a more obvious chocolate note emerging on the finish that erases a little detail, but it is still a satisfactory grand cru, if not one that demands a truckload of superlatives.
Thick and sweet. Quite dramatic but not very subtle. Dry finish. (JR)
A reserved but complex nose of both red and dark pinot fruit, spice and earth scents serve as a well-layered introduction to the refreshingly energetic and well-detailed medium weight plus flavors that possess good precision on the concentrated, long and balanced finish. This will need every bit of a full decade to reach its apogee. Tasted: Jan 14, 2013. Drink: 2021+
About the producer
Today run by the fourth-generation Nicole Lamarche, this property (previously known as Domaine François Lamarche) is firmly among the best in Burgundy. The Vosne-Romanée estate is most famous for its monopole Grand Cru La Grande Rue.