ÉCHEZEAUX

Dark red cherry, plum, spices, menthol and licorice all flesh out in the 2011 Echézeaux, a powerful, incredibly inviting Burgundy loaded with class and personality. Layers of dark, deeply spiced fruit blossom in the glass as the 2011 shows off its pure volume. The Echézeaux boasts fabulous extract and serious concentration. This is a marvelous Burgundy built for the cellar. Today, the 2011 is every bit as magnificent as it was from barrel. 2021-2041 Rating: 96 Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Apr 2014)

(60% new oak): Bright, dark red. Less expressive on the nose than the Ruchottes, offering ripe red fruit and toasty oak aromas lifted by a whiff of orange rind. Broad, round and suave for the year but not yet filled in; currently showing more cardamom and licorice than primary fruit. Finishes with fine-grained tannins and very good spicy persistence. This needs time in the cellar. Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2014)

Good bright, full red. Perfumed aromas of cherry, raspberry, tobacco, rose petal, minerals and smoked meat. Suave and silky in the mouth but a bit youthfully imploded, with well-integrated acidity giving shape to the middle palate. More savory and dry and less harmonious today than the Ruchottes but finishes long and pure, with sexy spice character and a firm tannic backbone for aging. Mostly from degenerating vines that produce tiny grapes in Les Rouges du Bas, the rest from Quartier de Nuits at the bottom of the slope. Rating: 91-94 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Feb 2013)