ÉCHEZEAUX

Faiveley holds 83 ares right in the Combe d'Orveau and next to Musigny. These vines are approaching 40 years old, and the 2020 juice saw 20% whole clusters. Despite that, the aromas are still rather restrained for now. Strawberries, raspberries and dried cranberries come through on the long finish. There's great finesse and solid density with refreshing lift. Drinking range: 2024 - 2042 Rating: 95 Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Feb 2022)

The 2020 Echézeaux En Orveaux Grand Cru bursts with aromas of sweet red berries, rose petals, peonies, orange rind, plums and cinnamon. Medium to full-bodied, broad and enveloping, with powdery tannins, lively acids and a long, precise finish, this, too, is very promising. Rating: 92-94 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Jan 2022)

Moderate wood influence frames the perfumed and elegant aromas of black cherry, hoisin, violet, lavender and exotic tea. Here too there is excellent mid-palate density and volume to the rich and opulent medium weight plus flavors that retain reasonably good detail on the austere bitter cherry-inflected and slightly warm finale that goes on and on. This isn’t quite as complex as the Clos de Vougeot but that may well change if given adequate time. Drinking range: 2032 - Rating: 91-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)