2005 Echezeaux, Jean Grivot (750ml)

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Vintage: 2005
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Echezeaux
Vineyard:
Designation: Grand Cru
Appellation: Echezeaux
Producer: Jean Grivot
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Sub-Region: Cote de Nuits

Tasting note: Purity and elegance are the hallmarks of this silky red. Black currant, violet, plum and mineral notes convene on the palate, as the supple texture gives way to beefy tannins. Be patient, this is just a baby. (94pts. BS, Wine Spectator)

Tasted: May 31, 2008
Score: 94
Drink: 2015-36

Tasting note: Deep ruby-red. Knockout brooding nose offers dark fruits, smoke, leather and musky Cuban tobacco. Wonderfully silky and thick on entry, then impressively dense without any heaviness in the middle palate. Hugely concentrated wine with superb sucrosite This spreads out to saturate the entire palate with black raspberry fruit and subtle earth tones. Can't quite match the Suchots for delicacy but this boasts outstanding breadth and class. A great example of Echezeaux. (94pts. Stephen Tanzer)

Tasted: Mar./Apr. 2008
Score: 94
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Here the nose is spicy and ripe but brooding, serious and backward with aromas running toward dark berry fruit, earth, game and smoke that introduce intense, powerful and sleekly muscled full-bodied flavors supported by equally firm tannins and a vibrant, intense and mouth coating finish. This is almost as serious as the Clos de Vougeot and will likely require just as much patience for it to arrive at its majority. This is a first class knockout. (94pts. Burghound)

Tasted: 2008
Score: 94
Drink: Starting 2020

Tasting note: Grivot’s 2005 Echezeaux leads with black raspberry and tart, high-toned red raspberry, fresh ginger, orange zest, black truffle, and wisps of wood smoke. Bright, high-toned, berry essences and pungent spice and smokiness dominate in the mouth as well, with a superb concentration and purity of sweet, creamy fruit coating the palate. Low-toned minerals and meat stock emerge in the wine’s long finish, but its energetic, invigorating brightness and primary sweetness of fruit remain undiminished. (93-94pts. DS, Wine Advocate)

Tasted: Apr. 2007
Score: 93-94
Drink: N/A