Domaine-Francois-Lamarche Echezeaux 2019

The 2019 Echezeaux Grand Cru comes from parcels in Les Champs Traversins, Les Cruots and Clos Saint-Denis. It has a beautiful, quite ethereal bouquet of precise strawberry and morello cherry scents laced with crushed stone-just pure Pinote. This is not a deep or powerful Echezeaux, though it fans out with confidence on a black-pepper-tinged finish of modest length. This will drink well over the next 10-15 years.

Here too the aromatic profile is ripe but cool with its much spicier assortment of red raspberry, dark cherry, anise and floral nuances, all of which is trimmed in discreet wood. There is both excellent volume and punch to the rich though quite compact finale that, unusually for this wine, exhibits a touch of rusticity on the beautifully long and slightly warm finale. This is another wine in the Lamarche range that will need extended patience. 91-94