Grands Echezeaux 2016

Echezeaux / Noellat, Georges

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Tasting Notes
Cropped at a mere ten hectoliters per hectare thanks to devastating spring frosts, the 2016 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru is one of the finest wines Maxim Cheurlin has produced to date. Unfurling in the glass with complex aromas of cherries, cassis, dark chocolate, grilled venison, loamy soil and black truffle, it's full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, with searing levels of concentration, rich structuring tannins and bright acids, concluding with a long and expansive finish. Score: 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2024-2050 31 January 2019
As is usually the case the broad-shouldered flavors possess more size and weight though perhaps a bit less than I usually see between the Ech and this wine. I like both the intensity and the polished mouthfeel that add appeal of the sappy and built-to-age finish that is hugely long but not really austere. In sum, this powerful effort should be capable of effortlessly aging over the next 15 to 20 years. Score: 92 - 94 Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2031+ 15 January 2018
(barely 15 hectoliters per hectare produced, owing to substantial frost; the malo finished in June): Deep black ruby. Nose dominated by high-pitched violet. Boasts terrific saline depth of flavor and inner-mouth tension but also a creaminess of texture that's rare for the vintage. A wine of great class, finishing with slowly mounting length, a repeating saline quality and terrific lift. A splendid Grands-Echézeaux in the making, with its dark berry, mineral and bitter chocolate flavors showing even more energy than the 2015 version at the same stage. (The Echézeaux, which Cheurlin vinified with 20% whole clusters owing to the tiny volume, was medicinal and reduced, and too salty, tight and dry on the finish to assess.) Score: 93 - 96 Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2018
Deep black ruby. Nose dominated by high-pitched violet. Boasts terrific saline depth of flavor and inner-mouth tension but also a creaminess of texture that's rare for the vintage. A wine of great class, finishing with slowly mounting length, a repeating saline quality and terrific lift. A splendid Grands-Echézeaux in the making, with its dark berry, mineral and bitter chocolate flavors showing even more energy than the 2015 version at the same stage. Score: 93 - 96 Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2018
There are just two barrels of 2016 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru this year. What can be said is that there is a huge gulf in quality between this and its "younger brother," the Echézeaux. It has a very pure bouquet with scents of cranberry, wild strawberry, minerals and wilted rose petals that is beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. There is more energy and tension here than in the Echézeaux, very focused and tensile with almost sorbet-fresh red berry fruit dancing about on the finish. It is not the most aristocratic Grands Echézeaux, but it is beautifully crafted and extremely pure. This will turn out as good as the scintillating 2015, if not better. Score: 95 - 97 Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2022-2045 29 December 2017

Tasting Notes

Cropped at a mere ten hectoliters per hectare thanks to devastating spring frosts, the 2016 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru is one of the finest wines Maxim Cheurlin has produced to date. Unfurling in the glass with complex aromas of cherries, cassis, dark chocolate, grilled venison, loamy soil and black truffle, it's full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, with searing levels of concentration, rich structuring tannins and bright acids, concluding with a long and expansive finish.

Score: 95

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2024-2050 31 January 2019

As is usually the case the broad-shouldered flavors possess more size and weight though perhaps a bit less than I usually see between the Ech and this wine. I like both the intensity and the polished mouthfeel that add appeal of the sappy and built-to-age finish that is hugely long but not really austere. In sum, this powerful effort should be capable of effortlessly aging over the next 15 to 20 years.

Score: 92 - 94

Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2031+ 15 January 2018

(barely 15 hectoliters per hectare produced, owing to substantial frost; the malo finished in June): Deep black ruby. Nose dominated by high-pitched violet. Boasts terrific saline depth of flavor and inner-mouth tension but also a creaminess of texture that's rare for the vintage. A wine of great class, finishing with slowly mounting length, a repeating saline quality and terrific lift. A splendid Grands-Echézeaux in the making, with its dark berry, mineral and bitter chocolate flavors showing even more energy than the 2015 version at the same stage. (The Echézeaux, which Cheurlin vinified with 20% whole clusters owing to the tiny volume, was medicinal and reduced, and too salty, tight and dry on the finish to assess.)

Score: 93 - 96

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2018

Deep black ruby. Nose dominated by high-pitched violet. Boasts terrific saline depth of flavor and inner-mouth tension but also a creaminess of texture that's rare for the vintage. A wine of great class, finishing with slowly mounting length, a repeating saline quality and terrific lift. A splendid Grands-Echézeaux in the making, with its dark berry, mineral and bitter chocolate flavors showing even more energy than the 2015 version at the same stage.

Score: 93 - 96

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com 01 January 2018

There are just two barrels of 2016 Grands Echezeaux Grand Cru this year. What can be said is that there is a huge gulf in quality between this and its "younger brother," the Echézeaux. It has a very pure bouquet with scents of cranberry, wild strawberry, minerals and wilted rose petals that is beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. There is more energy and tension here than in the Echézeaux, very focused and tensile with almost sorbet-fresh red berry fruit dancing about on the finish. It is not the most aristocratic Grands Echézeaux, but it is beautifully crafted and extremely pure. This will turn out as good as the scintillating 2015, if not better.

Score: 95 - 97

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2022-2045 29 December 2017

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